seething this hard because I called your oneitis what he was: an overrated hack
A brief overview of Bismarck's "genius" foreign policy when dealing with the Prussian General Staff
"nooo plz don't go to war with Austria they'll beat us"
sorry we went to war with Austria
"nooo plz sue for peace now we'll never beat them"
sorry we utterly crushed Austria
"nooo plz make the peace favourable Europe will never accept us as the central hegemon"
sorry we humiliated them and became the central European hegemon
"... HAHA THIS WAS TOTALLY MY PLAN ALL ALONG"
"nooo plz don't switch to steel breech-loading artillery we should stick with bronze muzzleloaders"
sorry we switched to steel breechloaders because they offer superior range and fire rate"
"... HAHA THIS WAS TOTALLY MY PLAN ALL ALONG"
"nooo plz don't go to war with France we can't win"
sorry they've already gone to war with us and we're counterattacking
"nooo plz only fight defensively we need international sympathy"
sorry we utterly crushed their army at Sedan with those steel breechloaders, captured their emperor, and now nothing is stopping us from advancing on Paris
"nooo plz sue for an early peace be-"
fuck off we're laying siege to Paris
"nooo you can't just defeat the French and then proclaim Wilhelm as empe-"
why are you still here old man? We've done all of those things and have become the dominant power on the European continent and now it would take the combined might of the British, French, and Russian empires to barely manage to defeat us
"... HAHA THIS WAS TOTALLY MY PLAN ALL ALONG"
I hate him and his fanboys so much.