What if you born in his body in after the July Crisis? What would you do?
>>18552341Don't go on the offensive against the Russians and fortify my position in the Carpathians. Once the Germans counterattack at Tannenberg I can do the same and continue the eastern front as it did in our timeline, except that I have more men and morale.Slowly break Serbia with my numerical advantage instead of blitzing Belgrade. Bulgaria will join our side anyway and kick in their teeth if they aren't already beaten.Urge Franz Joseph to surrender Tirol and Istria (excluding Trieste) in exchange for Italian neutrality for at least two years, as by that point Serbia would already be gone and said country could join us after consideration. After a Central Power victory A-H can just pressure them into giving it back by having the Germans bully them, if not it's still a worthy price for dominance over the Balkans.Meet with Wilhelm II on a few occasions to persuade him away from unrestricted submarine warfare and letting his subordinates send telegrams without his permission.
>>18552480>Urge Franz Joseph to surrender Tirol and Istria (excluding Trieste) in exchange for Italian neutrality>not knowing later turn same fortified alp against youConvincing italian held referendum for Lombardy and Venetia or simply promise them Nice, Corsica, and Savoy as King Victor Emmanuel III initialled military plans for action by Italy on her north-western borders, that is against France in 1914?
>>18552498Not all Italian politicians wanted war with Austria. Despite divided, many elites were preferred Mediterranean expansion.
>>18552498Also Italy’s nationalist movement La Grande Italia openly demanded these French territories
Nothing different. Hotzendorf did absolutely nothing wrong, and I'm tired of pretending like he did. Mayhaps, perbe, I would've allied with General Cardona and conquer the entirety of Europe with him. That would've ended the Great War and all wars, actually.
>>18552341Fire Oskar Potiorek. Don't change the mobilization right in the middle. Immediately use gas on the Serbian front. Get German officers to support the Carpathian front.Romania will join opportunistically and lose quickly, keep the demobbed soldiers as "guests". Stop the building of battleships, go all in on submarines.Don't attack against Italy no matter how inviting, let them bleed themselves dry in the mountains. Invite Lenin for a talk.
>>18552998Also remind Romania about 1883 secret treaty>>18552998
>>18552341shoot myself
Urge Franz Joseph II make Latin official language of the empire.
>>18552480>>18552498>>18552930
>>18552341I was going to say something about purposefully being incompetent but then I remembered who this is about and I doubt I could be more incompetent than he already was, even if I tried
>>18552341July was already too late, AH could only have avoided a Europe-wide war (which they would 100% lose, the AH army was shit and they had to watch 4 fucking fronts) if they attacked immediately in June before they wasted time with an ultimatum and Russia stepped up to help the Serbs.At that point, the best move would have been to shoot Franz Joseph and hope that Charles would be able to negotiate some relatively okay deal.
>>18553951>the AH army was shitIt wasn't that bad. The issue army split between three (Imperial Habsburgers force, Army of Hungary, and the common army)Secondly, the most fuck up thing is the man giving out information to Russia.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYT7qgLHJpk
