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  • The following is not meant as a rant but an supplement to the simplifications of this meme.
    While not completely wrong this explanation fails to consider:

    • Wilhelm II deliberately destroying Bismarck’s treaty system (which isolated France). Leading to Germany’s relative isolation.
    • Germany granting Austria-Hungary the Blank Cheque after the assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand, fully aware that Habsburg’s attack on Serbia would lead to the mobilisation of Russian forces.
    • and most importantly: Germans committing war crimes in both world wars.