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Lot's Wife
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Date: June 06, 2019 03:43PM
> >Germany didn't exist as a country and could not
> threaten anybody else before 1871.
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> Irrelevent nonsense and also untrue: Study up on
> Frederick the Great. 1871 saw the estabishment of
> "Germany" as a country, but otherwise your claim
> reduces to something indefensible.
Uh, Prussia was not Germany. Some might consider the fact that they were different countries "relevant."
Frederick the Great was king of Prussia 140 years before Germany even existed as a country. At the time of his death, Prussia had more territory in Poland than in Germany. For the next century Prussia would continue basically irrelevant in Europe. The great powers were France, Austria, Germany, and Britain. Germany was a vacuum in the center of Europe. It's "threat" to Europe laid in tempting other countries to intervene--witness the 30 Years War and the Napoleonic Wars--in ways that destabilized the continent.
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> Wiki is sufficient for this one:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussia>
> >>At the Congress of Vienna (1814–15), which
> redrew the map of Europe following Napoleon's
> defeat, Prussia acquired rich new territories,
> including the coal-rich Ruhr. The country then
> grew rapidly in influence economically and
> politically, and became the core of the North
> German Confederation in 1867, and then of the
> German Empire in 1871. The Kingdom of Prussia was
> now so large and so dominant in the new Germany
> that Junkers and other Prussian élites identified
> more and more as Germans and less as Prussians.
As I was saying, Germany came into existence as a state in 1871. It was united by the Prussian victory over Austria in 1865, the triumph over France in 1871, and the subsequent decision of the lesser German powers to join in the creation of a new Prussian-dominated state. In short, you have just explained what I wrote above.
Thank you for that.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/06/2019 03:52PM by Lot's Wife.