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The cause of WWI. Sarajevo was just a straw that broke the camel's back.
Germanic Saxony, whether Welf or Wettin, should be the heart of Germany, not quasi-Celtic Bavaria or quasi-Balto-Slavic Prussia.
England wants nothing to do with Europe except free association with Germanic countries for trade and cultural ties.
Protestant Prussia vs Catholic Austria...I refuse to take sides about either "moral superiority". I would have preferred apolitical Mennonite or Amish ideal about a free land for bauers and no theocratic warmongering.
This is why the Nassau, Welf and Oldenburg families should have ruled Deutschland, so it's too bad Richard of Cornwall didn't win the Imperial Crown in addition to the Kingly one, because it would have been to everyone's advantage in the present time, even if it was Plantagenets instead of the Hohenstaufen, Luxemburg, Habsburg and Hohenzollern dynasties.
Same with their Christian Crusader mentality about Ostsiedlung. They're equally German colonies and equally deserve life or death on the same terms.
Look, a peaceful Axis of Berlin and Vienna, Alliance of London and Washington, is just fine.
It's too bad there's no true universal Germanic feeling.
Americans don't want to pay for NATO and yet side with Britons about Europe. There's no cognitive dissonance.
Prussians and Austrians ruling Germany would be like Unionists and Confederates ruling Britain.
Unfortunately, Germany, including Prussia and Austria, are too integrated with Roman visions and not NW-minded like Teutons outside their empires.
You know you wanted to write Aachen, don't lie. I prefer Hedeby.
Erasing Ostpolitik requires reclamation of Österreich for Ostmark and this would balance Bavarian needs for lebensraum, with a Dutch-Deutsch bilateralism instead.
Well, Lothringen is always going to be dubious.
Germany and the Netherlands should withdraw from Europe and revive the Hanse, as Lübeck is currently working on.
Actually, Dutch navigations overseas originated with Burgundian Habsburg Spain, hence the red saltire.
I like the time when Leicester was Governor-General of the Netherlands under Elizabeth, to replace Calais lost under Mary and Philip.
That's England's Europe.
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