Roads to the Great War

Roads to the Great War


1914: Not Bismarck's Dual Alliance

Posted: 18 Oct 2020 02:00 AM PDT

[During his tenure] Bismarck did not intend to enter into war against Russia for Austria-Hungary's interest on the Balkan Peninsula. The German chancellor professed that the stronger party of the alliance must set the pace, noting "within an alliance, there is always a horse and a rider." Bismarck openly declared that for Germany the casus foederis [for the Dual Alliance] would not extend

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