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Originally Posted by LadyCat
As much as I would love to be able to rewrite history or even ask these guys "What were you thinking?", sadly that is not possible. As much fun as I have speculating about what might have been, what is, well, is. Both Russia and Germany suffered due to incompetent leaders. Okay, so Bismark wasn't incompetent, he was just shortsighted. (And yes I consider him to have been the real leader of Prussia, and later Germany, during Willy's grandfather's reign).
Cat
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LadyCat,
It is what is.
And... Bismarck wasn't incompetent and he read Willy so well. And I have to agree with your comment that he was indeed shortsighted especially not realizing that as well as he read Willy, he couldn't forsee that Willy's personality was ever evolving into something more and more explosive and further more uncontrollable by himself or his influences.