When the Kaiser Saved Britain: Wilhelm, Britain, and the Boer War

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6 ай бұрын

Between 1899 and 1900, Wilhelm II, Ruler of the German Empire, faced a choice. As Britain engaged in the Boer War, France and Russia looked to take advantage. Germany could very well decide whether they would be able to. The Kaiser had a long held and very public sympathy for the Boers, yet remarkably, in the first year of the war, it was down to his influence alone that a continental league against Britain failed to take shape. This video aims to be a short documentary charting the diplomatic proceedings of this.
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@OldBritannia 6 ай бұрын

I hope you enjoy this short video on one page of Wilhelm II's eventful diplomatic career. The video I am mainly working on at the moment is the final part of 'The Other Great Game', but I have a few smaller scripts like this I have completed that I will hopefully be able to add to the channel in the meantime. Thank you for watching.

@user-hp5bc5cy2l 6 ай бұрын

If anyone will come up with a revived Anglo federalism of the Old Commonwealth and USA (others maybe too?) Yep, that man is You!

@jackbharucha1475 6 ай бұрын

@@user-hp5bc5cy2l At this point I will be impressed if the actual Anglo Federation, the UK, manages to survive my lifetime.

@user-hp5bc5cy2l 6 ай бұрын

@@jackbharucha1475 One more arguemnt in favor of shattering the "Russian" Federation and treating it like Rome treated Carthage! Thanks m8!

@jackbharucha1475 6 ай бұрын

@@user-hp5bc5cy2l what? You think I am Russian or something? Or that I think the break up of the UK would be a good thing?

@explodingwolfgaming8024 6 ай бұрын

Yoooo

@anamationmax 6 ай бұрын

Wilhelm was such a strange guy. Feels like he always talked first and thought later.

@Sceptonic 6 ай бұрын

He was emperor at the wrong time

@soundwavegamer2321 6 ай бұрын

Hey actually felt that way to. During his Exile in his memoirs he wrote on how much of a fool he was for continuing to speak ill of the Japanese. Even til the Great War. He regretted saying that after the Russo-Japanese war he should have stopped then at least Britain wouldn’t have had an even closer ally in the Far East.

@anamationmax 6 ай бұрын

@@soundwavegamer2321 hindsight is 20/20. he was a hot headed person tho. his brash actions were born from a idea that he had to prove Germanys power and more or less himself to the world. but it rlly cost him dearly.

@soundwavegamer2321 6 ай бұрын

@@anamationmax his hot headedness the man who was told to order the Panther to Morocco to ensure the French stayed out of a sovereign nation, but then secretly recalled it knowing such an action would cause war. The man was many thing, but someone who would perform actions that would lead to war of his own accord wasn’t one of them. If he wasn’t a good leader Queen Victoria would have enjoyed their talks. Considering her feelings of her own incompetent heir Prince Albert aka King Edward VII

@jackbharucha1475 6 ай бұрын

An interesting and undercovered area of history. It is strange to think of all the popular acclaim the Boers had in the 19th century, only to become one of the most hated ethnic groups in human history during the 20th thanks to apartheid.

@Dragblacker 6 ай бұрын

Everyone loves an "underdog", until it stops being an "underdog".

@uingaeoc3905 6 ай бұрын

The Boers were the founders of Apartheid being the last White Slaving nations. In modern terms their Human rights record was appalling.

@warcriminalgaming2359 6 ай бұрын

Now they are becoming the underdogs again lol

@warcriminalgaming2359 6 ай бұрын

@@secretname4190 ehh yeah fair but in the 1900s they had firm control over a strong nation. A successful under dog then if you will.

@tiaelago-oretukaumunika7017 6 ай бұрын

@@secretname4190more like 3 to 1 before the 60s, which is much more than a fair fight when you're literally bringing guns to knife fights

@eagle_and_the_dragon 6 ай бұрын

Wilhelm IIs' partial view of his Grandmother, and partly of Britain, did more to assist the Realm than much of our actual political scheming. Victoria's death must've been the final straw, I fear; he seemed rather untoward-Edward.

@vetarlittorf1807 6 ай бұрын

That's because Edward was an arrogant prick. Wilhelm constantly tried to patch their relationship and forge an Anglo-German alliance, but Edward and his government rejected any and all offerings of peace.

@robertclive491 6 ай бұрын

@@vetarlittorf1807 Anglo-German alliance is unnatural.

@soundwavegamer2321 6 ай бұрын

To quote a Belgian diplomat “Peace in Europe was never in more danger then when the King of England try to keep it”

@robertclive491 6 ай бұрын

@@soundwavegamer2321 Belgium owes its existence to the King of England.

@soundwavegamer2321 6 ай бұрын

@@robertclive491 ya only because Britain found it a convenient landing spot in Europe. Essentially Britain whole plan was to break Belgian neutrality if they had to get involved with a Continental war.

@robbsclock2675 6 ай бұрын

Imagine if Germany and the British Empire had been allies, what a world it could have been

@user-vo9wd6tx6c 6 ай бұрын

What's wild is that Germany and Britain actually had *improving* relations from 1912-1914. If WWI had been delayed, Britain might not have joined.

@olivermcgimpsey841 6 ай бұрын

A worse one?

@CG-yq2xy 6 ай бұрын

Funny enough, when many German officers were captured by the British, they often argued with their British counterparts saying that their two countries should have teamed up and gone against the French and the Russians.

@m1n10ns8 6 ай бұрын

@@olivermcgimpsey841 How?

@oscarscribner7702 6 ай бұрын

@m1n10ns8 idk two oppressive colonial powers continuing to rule over vasts swaths of land in which minorities were treated like shit, famines were commonplace, and genocide considered nessasary. But maybe it's just me.

@SkullTakerRob 6 ай бұрын

I just cannot get over that first letter from the Kaiser to his Grandmama. I can understand sprinkling in a little bit of familial affection into the letter but why he thought it was a dignified for a head of state send a letter to another for the purpose of whining that the big, bad Salisbury was being mean is beyond me. Kaiser Wilhelm truly is the joker card of the late 19th - early 20th centuries, his mind is beyond our own.

@kaiserwilhelm810 6 ай бұрын

Well, I did have a bit of a rough start, so I felt the rather unnatural need to make an impression. Do I regret it? Ehhhh…….to some extent, yes. Do not tell von Bülow, though. He tends to get cheesy about these things.

@antimatterg 6 ай бұрын

@@kaiserwilhelm810no way it's the man himself

@kingofcards9516 6 ай бұрын

Tbf, I don't believe he had the best childhood, especially with the whole arm thing.

@brn_4456 6 ай бұрын

@@antimattergBro got out of gulag to justify himself

@Gabriel-dx6do 6 ай бұрын

Salisbury response is even better lmao.

@Brandon_TG_Smith 6 ай бұрын

Did the Netherlands really just not care? I’ve never heard anybody talk about the relations between the Boers and the Dutch people

@user-hp5bc5cy2l 6 ай бұрын

Given Dutch military capacity (capable warriors!) and war time performance (lose war after war to UK) all I can conclude is: a small ambitious hard working country with global ambitions Chose to lose the wars it would lose inevitably yet win the peace. Dutch e.g. are in fact among the elite in the USA. I presume that is true in S.A. as well.

@kloon9699 6 ай бұрын

The Netherlands was perhaps the most sympathetic to the Boers. However, on its own, it couldn't do much against the British Empire. It also held a position of neutrality in world affairs. Queen Wilhelmina put a lot of effort into supporting the Boers. She wrote Queen Victoria to help prevent the war, but she replied that an outbreak of hostilities would be the fault of the Boers. When the war started, she tried to rally the other Great Powers to pressure Britain into ceasing the war. She wrote Kaiser Wilhelm with the request, "das schlimmste von den Buren abzuwenden durch eine Intervention bei England mit den andern Mächten". Wilhelm, however, also refused. The Russian Empire preemptively sent a letter to Queen Wilhelmina saying that they wouldn't intervene, so no great power would help the Netherlands. The only thing we could do was send a warship to pick up President Kruger and bring him to safety. This war also caused widespread Anglophobia in the Netherlands until World War II.

@torikeqi8710 6 ай бұрын

@user-hp5bc5cy2l Dutch are totally nothing in USA. Unimportant to other Europeans. Also Netherlands were unimportant in the global stage after 1650s.

@lakkie5204 6 ай бұрын

@@user-hp5bc5cy2l Most Dutch Americans aren't part of the elite in the US, the majority is middle-class who migrated post WW2. Seems obvious, but the group you're thinking of is a super small, intermixed population of descendants of 17th century colonists. They aren't really representative of 90% of Dutch-Americans. Also, I feel like you're kinda assuming that Dutch people actually thought they could get back to the influence they had in the 1600s. Like no, Dutch people didn't just go through a massive timeskip from 1700 to 1900 just cause that's the next date something relevant happened. Their 100-year stagnation, the Napoleonic era, and Belgian independence all happened in between those dates, and Dutch culture and foreign policy had completely changed

@user-hp5bc5cy2l 6 ай бұрын

@@lakkie5204 President Roosevelt definitely disagrees... and so do I. You are full of sh... it.

@brianpolk2187 6 ай бұрын

Love your narrative style and the maps, keep it up

@CMitchell808 6 ай бұрын

Always a delight, seeing a new video of yours.

@scott4259 6 ай бұрын

Always a good day when O.B. does an upload.

@FutureBoyWonder 6 ай бұрын

I really wish you did longer form videos even if it meant less visual material. You have a great voice And information And I would love to see you expound on your many topics. Britannia deserves our attention and channels like history time and fall of civilizations prove people enjoy that material

@MrParksy92 5 ай бұрын

Really interesting and insightful video as always !

@lphantomspeedruns 6 ай бұрын

YOOOO didn't expect another video so soon

@finnyishere3532 6 ай бұрын

Great video! I feel like we don’t get many mainstream videos on the Boer war. Fascinating and often overlooked period in history.

@MattCellaneous 3 ай бұрын

Wow! A second Samoan civil War reference. You never get those man. A short video on the disastrous Anglo-American campaign in that strange little conflict would be fun. Fun fact, the Samoan Islands two main Islands were split between Germany and America directly as a result of the second Samoan civil War(1899/1900). One island is still American Samoa today and the other is the Republic of Samoa which used to be the German protectorate.

@thorpeaaron1110 6 ай бұрын

Great video when you get a chance could do one on the development of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance of 1902?

@ashleycroydon9743 5 ай бұрын

I will aways find it hilarious and heart-warming when i see the kaiser and his grandmother's letters.they truly had something special ❤

@unusualhistorian1336 6 ай бұрын

Great documentary, keep it up!

@Falkriim 6 ай бұрын

Very interesting video!

@micahistory 5 ай бұрын

very interesting, I never would have expected this

@luisfilipe2023 6 ай бұрын

Kaiser Wilhelm II is the most underrated character in late 19 early 20 century European politics

@blugaledoh2669 6 ай бұрын

lol interesting character

@luisfilipe2023 6 ай бұрын

@@blugaledoh2669 what’s the joke

@yaldabaoth2 6 ай бұрын

I don't think he is underrated at all. Everyone (now and also back then) knows how important he is - and how utterly unfit for his position in his childish naivety and idiocy.

@Barwasser 5 ай бұрын

@@luisfilipe2023 the mustache

@jonbainmusicvideos8045 4 ай бұрын

One of the main reasons for the Boer war that remains unexplored was the construction of the Suez canal. This would have had a major negative impact on everyone in South Africa which until then had enjoyed the fruits of shipping routes between West and East. At that point the Boers were unable to sustain a proper currency and instead used British stamps for money.

@robertsansone1680 6 ай бұрын

Excellent. Thank You

@geraldmeehan8942 4 ай бұрын

new to channel thank you for the content

@aussiegaming7982 6 ай бұрын

How do you guys make your maps? They're absolutely amazing.

@OldBritannia 5 ай бұрын

Thank you. Just photoshop, learnt from Dr Ludwig’s tutorials here on YT

@danever159 6 ай бұрын

Could you make a video about what home rule was?

@davidcunningham2074 6 ай бұрын

as always his grasp of the diplomacy of that era is so impressive.

@Orleborleh 4 ай бұрын

Could you make a video covering the Schleswig-Holstein question?

@left9096 5 ай бұрын

This is without a doubt your funniest video. I almost died when you read out that letter.

@jaysbuildingtime5256 6 ай бұрын

Love it!

@eliwhaley4804 5 ай бұрын

This may be a niche thing for myself, but I'd love a video on the no confidence vote in 1892 in the UK. As a fan of that era I always found it interesting. Plus it is rather similar to the situation going on now in Poland, where the governing PIS will not resign until a vote of no confidence.

@OldBritannia 5 ай бұрын

Haha, that certainly is niche. Definitely an interesting topic though. Yes although my interest is foreign policy, Salisbury’s political strategy is also really interesting. His skill in holding together what was effectively a coalition until 1892, and then after 1895 is greatly overlooked. I had a (not very good) biographical video of him up ages ago that I keep meaning to revamp. That would probably be the best place to discuss it.

@kenattwood8060 5 ай бұрын

The Russian Minister shot himself in the foot by criticising the Royal Navy... Kaiser Wilhelm II actually held the rank of Admiral of the Fleet in the British Royal Navy: an appointment of wich he was excedingly proud. When the Minister informed him that it was in as bad a state as the British Army, the Kaiser naturally thought that he was dealing with an idiot who did not need to be taken seriously.

@randomknight2585 6 ай бұрын

Two Old Britannia videos within a week we eating good.

@danehollyoak4897 6 ай бұрын

Amazing

@puschelhornchen9484 6 ай бұрын

This Krugers beard never fails to make me laugh😂

@johnjackbogle1217 6 ай бұрын

Ever thought about putting your works on Nebula or Curiousity Stream?

@OldBritannia 5 ай бұрын

I’m afraid I don’t really know what they are, other than seeing the occasional advert. I’m quite happy just plugging away here to be honest.

@nickfromm5315 6 ай бұрын

How do I fix this "Ad blockers violate KZfaq's Terms of Service" im not using ad block, can you show m your video

@itsyaboi1748 6 ай бұрын

Babe wake up, new Old Britannia video

@jonahhudson2052 6 ай бұрын

He made a video on the Boer war! :D

@Gamenetreviews 5 ай бұрын

Very good

@ciaranquinlan8710 6 ай бұрын

Ohhh What a topic 🎉🎉🎉 nice

@crocodileguy4319 6 ай бұрын

Zayumn, two uploads in one week? #blessed innit

@Jimmylad. 5 ай бұрын

It’s weird to think there could have been a anti British alliance of Germany Russia and France

@minerat27 6 ай бұрын

Two Old Britannia videos in one week? But it's not my birthday until April??

@danever159 5 ай бұрын

Final part to usa vs Britain series? One focusing on uk losing colonies etc and everything related to that? Short but still something.

@alansmithee8831 6 ай бұрын

In comments previously, I spoke of history of 1700s like monarchs playing with armies. This seems so much like this. Naughty grandchildren squabbling over grandma's favour. How different to the WW1 aims video descriptions of peoples appealing to US ideas of self determination. It did touch on it with the press stirring up national sentiment. Interesting that this is around the time when Yellow Press had a role in US v Spain in Cuba. I am now wondering if each country had its Citizen Kane to match? Lastly, the idea Britain only wanted to uphold Belgian neutrality in 1914 seems less and the idea of it seeking gains seems enhanced. Could King George have verbally "banged his cousins heads together" to stop things or was his gran the last with such authority? Very interesting as always.

@neilbuckley1613 6 ай бұрын

I think the British Foreign Office woke up to the danger of war too late to start arranging a diplomatic conference prevent war in 1914. The tradgedy is that Germany especially, but also France and Uk could have stopped the war if they intervened early enough together.

@alansmithee8831 6 ай бұрын

@@neilbuckley1613 The things that persuade me to still slightly think the way I commented were the map of Africa, with bits some in Britain might like for a railway Cape to Cairo and when previously there was mention of UK economy growing in WW1 while all the others were going backwards. Britain had won the naval arms race, so to get rid of the German fleet would be like winning domination of trade too, like a replay of the wars a century earlier. The difference now was the increased influence of US, as per the "Other Great Game" videos.

@YoussefDaanBenAmor 6 ай бұрын

interesting to think many commanding British officers in WW1 served in the Second Boer War. Many streets in the Netherlands are named after war heroes like Paul Kroeger. And i think the Boer concentration camps built by the British were very comparable to the enslavement in the German colonies of Africa (Tanzania Namibia Togo Cameroon).

@uingaeoc3905 6 ай бұрын

What you think about the 'concentration camps' and what you understand are two different things. they most certainly were not a form of enslavement, but of removing civilian support to the Boer Commando units. Enslavement was what the Boers did to the Bantus. Jan Smuts and his comperes realised the fight was not worth it and became a firm ally of Britain, he knew full well what the camps were about.

@uingaeoc3905 6 ай бұрын

@@secretname4190 Shows you how ignorant you are. It is factual language. The Boer settlements were family units. The men who were the Commandos fighting were supported by their families who maintained the farms and gave them shelter. Kitchener realised that by rounding up and 'concentrating' the families into camps he could starve out the Commandos. They were not as you pretend 'deathcamps' having no greater a mortality rate than Glasgow and lower than Madras. The policy was a success and at least partially civilised the Boers as Smuts and Botha and Milan accepted. . The Boers deserved everything they got, being a bunch of slave driving xenophobic racists.

@dandyl1on 6 ай бұрын

@@uingaeoc3905 keep your euphemism. They weren't enslaved but certainly incarcerated. More than 20 thousand boers perished through various reasons in the concentration camps.

@soundwavegamer2321 6 ай бұрын

@@uingaeoc3905those camps were basically the pro types for what the Nazi’s used during their Final Solution during their era of German history, and unlike the English who didn’t care about what the army was doing. When word got back to Germany on what their armies had been up to the public was outraged.

@uingaeoc3905 6 ай бұрын

@@dandyl1on No they didn't. Nor was there any enslavement. So keep to your ignorant fake narrative about the slave owning Boers. I notice you did not engage wit the FACTS.

@alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723 4 ай бұрын

Kaiser: Cousin, can we not have a war and instead peace!? King, the Tzar and President: NO!!!!

@fias0m 5 ай бұрын

"Granmama was not amused."

@quicke5486 6 ай бұрын

One mistake; Cameroon never was fully handed over to the Germans around this time, just pointing out a map inaccuracy.

@Slavic_Gopnik69 5 ай бұрын

You could make what if video

@tomservo56954 6 ай бұрын

"Are your parties a bore?" "No, the Boer War, actually"

@sahilhossian8212 6 ай бұрын

Lore of When the Kaiser Saved Britain: Wilhelm, Britain, and the Boer War momentum 100

@avus-kw2f213 6 ай бұрын

Historical determinism is the biggest threat to world peace

@silvergalaxie 3 ай бұрын

why are"von"s removed &or replaced,sporadically? happens alot&in the past,not so much. G Davis ,WW1 guy

@shamsishraq6831 6 ай бұрын

Massive miss by Germany. That Continental League could poison Anglo-French relations, if nothing else.

@vatsal7640 6 ай бұрын

The uk should have made an alliance with Germany,they both could have ruled the world together.

@jameslight4391 5 ай бұрын

@@vatsal7640 why co rule when you can rule by yourself

@LoLMasterManiac 5 ай бұрын

@@jameslight4391 in hindsight it turns out co-ruling would have been a better option, now neither bongs nor germans rule much, besides their own small countries

@Karkkuss 6 ай бұрын

NEW VIDEO LETS GOOOOOO

@MBP1918 6 ай бұрын

Interesting

@mbathroom1 6 ай бұрын

1st, last time I was this early, it was the 19the century

@gerhard6105 6 ай бұрын

Here in the Netherlands i lived i a Transvaalneighnourhood with a Paul Krugestraat, Paul Krugerkade and a Paul.Krugerpark. The.jouses were built aound 1905. All there also neighbourhoods mamed after the Boer (= farmer in Dutch) war in England? Our Paul Krugerpark is.later.renamed to Nelson Mandelapark.

@eliwhaley4804 6 ай бұрын

I love your love of Salisbury

@bones6448 6 ай бұрын

2 videos in a week? I'm dreaming

@blitzy3244 3 ай бұрын

1:35 Using orange to make it look like a fried chicken was intentional, wasn't it?

@louisiananlord17 5 ай бұрын

Shame on the Netherlands for not helping their brothers and sisters in South Africa. I know they probably could have done nothing, but still, their foreign ministry could have spoken out. 🇳🇱 🇿🇦 As always, Old Britannica, a treasured chestnut from your keen mind. 🇬🇧

@TheJosman 5 ай бұрын

The Dutch were kinda like the Spaniards and the French when it comes to their treatment of their diaspora. Once Spain and France left Latin America and Quebec (respectively), they left their progeny on their own and never made any effort to reconnect with them or support them in any way. Britain was kinda the only one that did promote some sort "unity" among colonies and their motherland. France eventually did too, but with its African and Caribbean colonies.

@thanhhoangnguyen4754 5 ай бұрын

@@TheJosman Although to be fair their monarch try but fail. They speak out a little and help a little. But that it. Other than that. The Dutch declaring war on the British for support of the boer will be a disaster.

@Lepidivs 6 ай бұрын

And they say Wilhelm hated England!

@gerhard6105 6 ай бұрын

The European royal houses were all family from each other.

@jared_hall 5 ай бұрын

Wilhem had a love hate relationship , he adored victoria his grandmother and admired england but also was jealous of her status and had a withered hand that he blamed on the english doctor that delivered him at birth. All in all the kaiser imagined himself as the last of the medieval german king when they needed a the first of modern

@thanhhoangnguyen4754 5 ай бұрын

@@jared_hall Well at least he and Bismarck is on the same on that. Honestly I wonder if Bismarck could find successors to replace him for Wilhelm II then Germany would still stand strong. Bismarck was also ultra conservative of old the way. And pretty hated the English liberal democratic way. Part of reason why he blocked anything that is British from Victoria daughter that try make Prussia like English.

@Player_Review 3 ай бұрын

Queen Victoria was grandmother to the whole of the world and the Great Nations could always find other common interests, such as disturbances in their development projects with Imperial China. Acts of barbarism that offended civilized society would be perpetrated by various uncivilized peoples and advanced civilizations of the time felt it their duty to punish such actions and aid peoples the education for becoming civilized; Of course, this included Christian Missionaries spreading the word and these fellas were common targets of torture-death squads over the centuries on the mainland in the East and upon the islands of the East. In 1900, the Imperial Chinese once again violated oaths and treaties in a campaign of genocide against non-Chinese and Chinese Christians and their properties (lands ceded from prior wars lost they had signed and agreed as peace terms). It is way meatier of course, including the USA no longer needing migrant labor and so repatriating a great deal of Chinese peasants from the States back over to Mainland China (they were valuable day laborers for completion of the US transcontinental railroad). So, they got stomped again and had their Imperial Palace razed to the ground in response to crimes against humanity. And, while one power built the scientific marvel of the Panama Canal, another was experiencing the collapse of Empire - At one time in history, a rival for the strongest power on Earth after consolidation under Ghengis Khan's Mongol Empire Just a footnote in the grand scheme of things, but worth noting nonetheless for Eight-Nation involvement during the 'Boxer Rebellion' of 1899-1901.

@ilbirih8135 6 ай бұрын

Britain: having a hard time Germany: nah i got your back tea boy

@mint8648 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for not showing Oman as British. Remember Kuwait, Qatar, and much of Malaysia were considered protected states only as well

@AdvancedGamer- 2 ай бұрын

5:20

@berserker4940 6 ай бұрын

This was the biggest mistake of the German Empire. It's dangerous being an enemy of the Anglo. It is deadly to be their friend.

@fot6771 6 ай бұрын

Either way we’ve beaten everyone we’ve fought for 500 years and will continue to do so.

@sliftylovesyou 6 ай бұрын

@@fot6771 war of jenkins ear?

@Dryhten1801 Ай бұрын

No, the biggest mistake of the German Empire was Invading Britain's friend, Belgium. Fighting against the Germans didn't break out immediately, Britain was at peace until the Germans invaded the one country in the vicinity that had a British guarantee of independence. "The eternal anglo: or "perfidious albion" claims of salty continentals does NOT line up with actual history. So less 4chan, more history class.

@superm530 5 ай бұрын

So, an independent "western" nation like the boers were sold out for some faraway colony in Samoa, that the gemans had no position in defending in long term. Wilhelm II was a complete fool.

@heimatliebe116 25 күн бұрын

Hail to the Kaiser!

@gumdeo 3 ай бұрын

And here we see the basic problem for the Kaiserreich; can't ally with Britain, but can't restore the alliance with Russia either. This would have fatal consequences just 15 years later.

@Usonan-Foderation2016 6 ай бұрын

He should be praised for this

@JUAN_OLIVIER 6 ай бұрын

He was an idiot.

@ogerpinata1703 6 ай бұрын

And what was our thanks?

@robertewing3114 5 ай бұрын

Removing the Kaiser led to Hitler, it was asking too much of Germany. Had they imposed a democracy and monarchy like their own, public opinion would have opposed unilateral German rearmament - he would never have been trusted with it, but the German republic rearming triggered no hostility at all. As unpopular as he was in 1918, removing him was a mistake, the public got too much of what it wanted. He was a cause of the war, but he could have been used to ensure peaceful evolution of the new Europe since he had become symbolic of the militarism that Europe feared. Nothing could have been worse than extremist revolutionary Germany, and it only offended two people, Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill, until Hitler began showing the nature of his diplomacy.

@Dryhten1801 Ай бұрын

You invaded Belgium

@paul1780 6 ай бұрын

Comment for the algorithm.

@joshtaylor9626 6 ай бұрын

Honestly Queen Victoria telling her grandson no she a giga chad move 123 years early

@explodingwolfgaming8024 6 ай бұрын

Commenting 4 algorithm

@MyLateralThawts 5 ай бұрын

If the current laws of succession were in place at the time of Queen Victoria’s passing, the British crown would have gone to her eldest child, the Princess Royal Victoria. As she only survived her mother by less than a year, that would have meant the next king of England and the British Empire would have gone to her eldest child …Wilhelm! I’m pretty sure Wilhelm wouldn’t have allowed the British Empire to form an alliance against his German Empire and that both France and Russia wouldn’t have dreamed of going to war against such an alliance. Oh well, at least Europe is now being conquered peacefully by gangs of thieves and rapists.

@theotherohlourdespadua1131 5 ай бұрын

Not gonna happen. Parliament would nip that at the bud (since they have the exclusive power to choose a monarch which they used to elect William of Orange to the British throne) and considering that is the same situation with Hannover when their ruler died. By Hannover's succession laws, Queen Victoria would have been the next ruler of that place but given how much Hannover hates British liberalism, they wouldn't let her be their monarch despite being related to the last one by blood...

@MyLateralThawts 5 ай бұрын

@@theotherohlourdespadua1131 You’re mistaking English animosity to the Hohenzollerns during and after the Great War with how they felt about them before the war. In 1901, before the Anglo German naval race, the Princess Royal Victoria was still very popular in Britain. After her death, as Queen Victoria II, Parliament might very well have been in a sympathetic mood to Wilhelm. Oddly enough, there was a move by some in the British establishment to make King Edward VIII the Duke of Hannover after the Second World War when there were some seeking to restore the monarchy in Germany. Too many problems to sort out to make that a reality, but some did at least try.

@sebastiangruenfeld141 6 ай бұрын

If only the Kaiser hadn't been such a fool to think he could trust the Anglo...

@theotherohlourdespadua1131 5 ай бұрын

They have over 100 years experience dealing with them. It should be obvious to any grizzled diplomat Britain works for Britain...

@daryld4457 6 ай бұрын

Even if the Germans, Russians and French tried to impose a peace, they could have done nothing to make it a reality. To fight alongside, or to supply the Boers, they would have needed to control the seas. At this point in time the Royal Navy would have had no issues with dealing with all three simultaneously, and if it wasn't able to you can guarantee this theoretical alliance would indeed have taken place. Germany didn't save Britain- Britain's navy did.

@neilbuckley1613 6 ай бұрын

But if all three joined together there was a major threat to UK trade with Europe which would bring the UK to negotiations.

@Freigeist2008 5 ай бұрын

UK wouldnt even have a chance against two them, maybe Germany or Russia alone when the other two would be really neutral. WW1 shows. Germany alone hold stand against three great powers and defeated by the way the Royal navy tactically.

@theotherohlourdespadua1131 5 ай бұрын

@@neilbuckley1613 in 1899? When France is hellbent to getting Alsace-Lorraine back and Russia not feeling Berlin is sincere?

@neilbuckley1613 5 ай бұрын

I agree that such a combination is unlikely, but was a possibilty. Russia and France might look upon it as a way of causing enmity between UKand Germany.@@theotherohlourdespadua1131

@IdiotandOpinion 5 ай бұрын

Wilhelm II wouldn’t have been such a bad ruler if only he wasn’t so bad a ruling. Constantly putting his foot in his mouth, breaking with his advisors to show that he could and letting his national pride constantly get the better of him

@kennethadler7380 6 ай бұрын

The Boar wars is a perfect example of the British using concentration camps and wars of attrion long before the Nazis came to power

@Finlzz 6 ай бұрын

British concentration camps were nothing like the concentration camps in germany

@cpj93070 6 ай бұрын

Yeah get out of here trying to compare the two.

@bobdollaz3391 6 ай бұрын

If it were 27,000 Jooz🇮🇱 it would've been an atrocity but because the victims were hwyte ✝️ they aren't allowed to call their genocide a genocide

@cpj93070 6 ай бұрын

@@bobdollaz3391 You mad the British were never punished for what they did with there empire then?

@vetarlittorf1807 6 ай бұрын

@@Finlzz Maybe, but the British killed more people in their colonies than the Nazis ever did.

@uingaeoc3905 6 ай бұрын

The Kaiserriech could do little in Africa after the Congress of berlin it got what it wanted there and the Samoan concession was more important to it. France had no possessions near the Boer republics and only a few borders near Britain's in West Africa.

@Meanietube 5 ай бұрын

Grranny I Vant to be a grreat emperor too but ze boys vont let me 😭 🤣

@MakriaMicronation 6 ай бұрын

Im the 614th view on this video

@Luwukittyboi 6 ай бұрын

Watch how they repaid us

@fatherceltics2379 6 ай бұрын

:))

@Aubert1926 6 ай бұрын

When diplomacy was less cold, less dumb and more interesting.

@mikewazowski7024 6 ай бұрын

Poor. hoice of words considering how ridiculously petty and stupid diplomacy was during this era.

@Aubert1926 5 ай бұрын

@@mikewazowski7024 Then at least we didn't had mad Americans making us enemies everywhere, we didn't had to send weapons to Ukraine for feeding a war, no radical decisions based upon political ideologies and of course the US wasn't putting their noses in every matter, it was far better.

@aghomidaniel1937 5 ай бұрын

@@Aubert1926before the USA was putting their nose everywhere Britain was. And Britain gave far more to their Allies during ww1 and ww2 than to Ukraine

@Aubert1926 5 ай бұрын

@@aghomidaniel1937 The belle époque, the European deplomacy was deep and complex mostly based on familiar ties, if we had an enemy we fight him ourselves, if we had an ally we defend it, age of Empires and monarchy the soul of Europe, an era we ourselves bring to an end with the great war, first stupidity, letting the way free to Americans and Soviets, same disease with different ideologies for destroy the old world today deplomacy is ambiguous and dumb, based on the beliefs of the political party, Brexit came from that, if we have an enemy we don not know why and we fight him using paws unless it were small and weak or if have oil, post cold war, in the past there were dumb decisions also otherwise we were not discussing this but today only dumb decisions everywhere. What part of international relations are good today?

@Aubert1926 5 ай бұрын

@@aghomidaniel1937 Is most nostalgy and self criticism what my comment is full of.

@yourethatmantis5178 5 ай бұрын

I’m a bit mixed on Kaiser Wilhelm on this. On one hand he made the right call. Forming a continental system against Britain would’ve been a disaster for Germany. Britain would’ve given concessions to Russia and France, leaving Germany with nothing but strained relations with London. On the other hand he acted like a complete man-child to Queen Victoria, Edward, and Salisbury. Got the public against him and Anglo-German relations ended up soured eventually anyway. But hey at least he got an island out of it.

@TenOrbital 6 ай бұрын

Better if the Kaiser saved Austria-Hungary, the Russian empire, the Ottoman Empire and his own empire by not being dumb as dogpoop.

@someone5574 6 ай бұрын

The more I learn about Wilhelm II the I'm convinced that he really was just an idiot

@loogi_101 5 ай бұрын

Then please read "The Innocence of Kaiser Wilhelm II" by Christina Croft. I really, really wish more people would read this book, if only to be exposed to another side of him, instead of the persistent, constantly negative view towards him