> be Europe>possess unironic white supremacy over Asia, Europe, Africa>randomly destroy each other over the smallest of -isms, have your largest land empire be taken over by communists (Russia) by sending communists you hate in a sealed train to kill your own relatives (Germany) while Britain and France are crippled with a generation of doubt and low confidence after sending Indians and Senegalese to rape other Europeans, using weapons (poison gas and machine guns) meant to be used against colonial subjects> entire dynasties exiled or exterminated> white race has never recovered from this
rest in piss crackers
>>18400838It wasn't for nothing. It enabled the British to seize control of Palestine and issue the Balfour Declaration promoting Jewish settlement and colonization. It allowed the Americans to dismantle the German Empire and the Soviets to murder the Romanovs.
>>18400838Russian aggression plus Anglo retardation.
Those Empires looked powerful, but under the surface were pretty fragile, and a few revolts at home, resistance far away, and over-stretching of supply/communication lines was always ready to topple them. WW1 really just accelerate an already failing European economy (Great Depression was inevitable) and poured more fuel on the already lit fire of revolution that had been burning since the 1840sCase in point, they didn’t have the supremacy you think they did
>>18400838The British one is Australian.
>>18400926Mutt detected
>>18400855SAAAARR
>>18400958That anon is right. It all hinged on basically kneecapping trqde and communication within large regions to maintain and advantage and basically tollboothing entire sectors for the benefit of conpany/elite profit.Imagine having to pay way more for coffee because settler landlords and middle men in a colony/region want to hold an entire commodity hostage.
100% the fault of Germany>seethe that you don't have an empire>get an empire>still not enough>Austrians develop designs on the collapsing ottoman empire>Germans want a repeat of the war of 1870 and to claim more Slavic land for Prussian junkers in the east>Archduke Ferdinand killed thinking it is safe to ride around open top in a country you just invaded>Austrians initially just want a regional war>Germans want to escalate it into a war with major powers>accidentally send 2 copies of the war declaration on Russia, one because Russia did not agree to their demands and another if they had agreed, which more or less infallibly proves they wanted war with russia>Wilhelm II apparently loses control of the German militarists and tries to stop the march west through Belgium and into France but is ignored>Britain joined the warjust as they destroyed the roman empire they destroyed the Europe of the long 19th century 1815-1914 with its class and high art, which maintained trad values while marching headlong with pride and confidence into the modern world, its sense of honor and duty visible in the chivalry of the first fighter pilots and the Christmas truce, a world where an English gentleman could travel by train from Calais to Paris to Rome to Vienna to Budapest to Moscow without a passport, just his word as a gentleman, a good suit and a few cigars to trade with a Dane sharing his journey with whom he could make conversation, in French.
> Europe's empires have been busy killing each other for 3 years using manmade horrors beyond 19th century comprehension> This includes tear, phosgene, chlorine and mustard gas, sarin, tabun etc> Said empires have been shipping colonials, Indians and Senegalese across halfway around the world for the purpose of helping their armies kill each other on Europe> The Western Front is being reduced into a quagmire of unexploded artillery, craters, tanks as soldiers witness some unfortunate opposing force bastard choke to death on their own blood while crying out mother entangled in razor wire.> The Russian Empire has been degenerating and breaking down to massive popular unrest and anger, inflation and shortages creating bread riots amongst women while almost every continental European army is on the verge of mutiny as soldiers get a sense they're not fighting for anything> See the above> The Bolsheviks overthrow the Provisional Government and pursue red terror> Only now do the great powers acts like the Book of Revelation is happeningWouldn't a non-anglo normie be already in utter apathy after the horrors of the Great War? What difference does a bunch of Jew-or-not jacobins taking over the husk of a dead empire make? Were the Bolsheviks really that MORE horrifying than WWI?
Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, the bolsheviks taking over Russia, Weimar Germany, Great Britain winning the war, but weakened I wonder if anyone benefited
