>Germany was a land power for thousands of years>I need a strong fleet xD I need to rival Britain lmaoWas he literally clinically retarded? Has he ever looked at a map? He provoked and scared the strongest sea power for no reason at all.
>>18542357He was right, if Germany couldn’t contest the seas she would be conceding the world to the British
>>18542362OP clearly a faggot.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_qICI7kkXo
>>18542357Germany was a net food importer mostly bringing the food from South America. Depending on the order of the day Great Britain, if she decided to side against Germany could've blockaded it and it did so. Maybe building a navy capable of security sea routes was important after all.
>>18542357>>Germany was a land power for thousands of yearsAnd they were also Europe's largest economy at the turn of the 20th century. The expansion of her navy was a natural step toward protecting her colonies and trade.>>I need a strong fleet xDYes, Willi II needed a strong fleet as I explained previously.>>I need to rival Britain lmao>He provoked and scared the strongest sea power for no reason at all.Holy shit stop watching Overslopified videos. The German naval program was never aimed at being a threat to any nation, least of all Britain which the Kaiser adored.>>18542362>>18542436>>18542447All very good posts.
>>18542357>I need a strong fleetHe never said this.He approved of the Tirpitz model. He wanted fleet that could defend itself.
>>18542357always felt like the kaiser was a tragic figure. raised by anglophile parents and a prussian nationalist grandfather. it clearly led to the mood swings he had later in life, trying to boost german might as a way to fit in with the big kids of europe. him being a cripple didn't help. just a doofus who bumbled into a great war, crashing out constantly. sad stuff
>>18542506Kinda funny how both Tirpitz and Fisher were massive dickheads.
>>18542357germany had already conceeded defeat in the naval race several years before ww1. in fact it was mostly just a big deal for germans. brits hardly took notice, like that mad men elevator meme.people make way too much out of this.
>>18542357he casued and then fucked up WW1, which caused Poland to come back from ashes
>>18542357Some admiral wrote a book about how every major world power was built on the back of a strong navy and at the time the latest generation of battleships had prior ships so outclassed that everyone was essentially building up from square one making it feasible for the Germans to compete (at least in their minds). Hindsight is 20/20, but the decision to try build a proper navy then and there wasn't some absolutely braindead idea at the time.
>>18542639Fuck off, you backstabbing jeet cleaner
>Fuck off, you backstabbing jeet cleaner
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>>1854276>got rape in warfareNo argument, toilet cleaner.https://www.tankarchives.com/2017/01/tk-3-and-tks-polands-armoured.html?m=1
>>18542357>Make sure to cover my inbred deformed hand OK???
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>>18542357Germany was not a land power.They ate shit in most wars against non-Germans.
>>18542525The irony is that Germany was already great. Their economy was larger than Britain's.They felt inferior, because they didn't rule 100 nigger tribes across the planet like Britain did lmao. Sad.
Reminder Wilhelm was in power for over a decade before relations with England deteriorated. England switching to an anti-German policy had far more to do with Victoria's death than anything else. Victoria's son Edward VII was a devout Francophile who despised his German mother and extended family
>>18543240Controlling the global waterways and trade actually matters a lot. Also, Germany's attempt to create a land-based railway trade system was strongly opposed by England who wanted monopolistic control over all trade
>>18543282>Controlling the global waterways and trade actually matters a lot.Not really
>>18543240Germany had a bigger population than Britain and would continue to industrialize and eventually surpass them because bigger population + industrialization = super duper big economy. It's the same reason Germany feared Russia once they started to pull themselves, achingly slowly, out of serfdom and into modernity.
>>18543521It's literally why Britain was able to resist Napoleon for years, and eventually defeated him. Stranglehold over global trade matters a huge amount.
>>18543240Having a big economy but relying on imports you cannot defend means you have a small economy.
Prussian spirit live on in renting free mind of Poles and Russian.http://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkxa238InqtKcsN7Rkd4pFVq7OnFl-UOook
>>18543240>economy was larger than Britain's.Germany proper had a larger economy than Britain proper, but the British Empire still had a significantly larger economy than than the German Empire in 1914 (and, indeed thereafter, until the empires were both lost and Germany had the wirtschaftwunder)
>>18544668Incidentally, just to add to this, the British Empire in 1913 had still not been overtaken in terms of GDP by the United States, either, though Britain proper had been overtaken around 1890.
>>18542731 The Kaiser was so taken with Mahan’s work that he had it translated into German and made it required reading for his naval officers.>Large fleet that has overseas bases so it can bestride the world
>>18542731>Some admiral wrote a book about how every major world power was built on the back of a strong navyIf you are referring to A.T. Mahan's book he was only a captain, not an admiral.
