Of the Great Powers of the early 1900s, Austria-Hungary had>The lowest population>The weakest economy>The second smallest size>The smallest militaryBy what metric was this actually a power comparable to any of the others, besides maybe Italy?
>>17437876It was running a pure CHA build also this>Mitteleuropa is also used in a cultural sense to denote a fertile region whose thought has brought many fruits, artistic and cultural. It is also sometimes denote with the expression "Habsburg thought and culture." The rich Mitteleuropean literary and cultural traditions include Polish philosophy, Czech avantgarde literature, Hungarian social theory and science, Austrian lyric poetry, and the common capacity for irony and linguistic prowess.
>>17437876It was the only real empire out of those, i.e. a mutually enriching union of disparate cultures. Prussia was just a regular nation state with a small Polish minority. France and Britain were nation states that leached off overseas territories without enriching them. Russia was an anti-empire in that it made everything significantly worse for every culture inside of it.
>>17437876The u.k had a smaller army and army budget. A-H was just corrupt as hell
>>17437985What would they need an army for? Fishes? Hunter-gatherers with spears?
>>17437989Empires usually have a lot of land to patrol
>>17437998Yeah, their land was populated by tribesmen who couldn't threaten them. In India, the elites colluded with them, so they didn't need to lift a finger.
>>17438001Boer war was in 1903ish
>>17438018>>17438001Not to mention fighting in what's now Pakistan
>>17438018Was a gigantic shamefur dispray for Britain>>17438022Was usually done by the local aristocracy on their behalf
>>17437985They had 1 mln soldier just in india
>>17437985The UK did however have a fuckhueg navy that was better than a fuckhueg army for an island nation that mainly deals in oppressing vast territories of brown people overseas. AH didn’t even have that.
>>17438080The vast majority made up of..you guessed what
