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Blaming Russia for the entirety of the war is a take, an r-slured take but a take.
The whole Schlieffen plan that Germany's "brilliant" generals came up and stuck with was completely unworkable. It made assumptions of the far wing moving as quickly as the interior on the hook down into France. The only reason it worked as well as it did was incompetence in Frances entire doctrine.
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The Schlieffen-Moltke hybrid plan relied on rolling several "natural 20s" along the way, and almost all of them didn't come to fruition. The gamble failed.
✅ Germany would deploy efficiently with clockwork precision
❌ Belgium would let them walk through and wouldn't slow down their timetable
❌ France wouldn't notice
❌ England wouldn't honor its treaties
❌ Russia would take 900 hours to mobilize
✅ Germany had secretly developed siege canons which could defeat Belgian forts, as a backup, and they worked
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