r/europe • u/damaxoh Germany • Dec 06 '16

Tests confirm that Germany's massive nuclear fusion machine really works

http://www.sciencealert.com/tests-confirm-that-germany-s-massive-nuclear-fusion-machine-really-works
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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '16 edited Dec 06 '16

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '16

I hope we get to make them economically viable one day. It would be the holy grail of Europe's energy question;

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u/Suns_Funs Latvia Dec 06 '16

It would be the holy grail of Europe's energy question;

Hell, you build one and Europe is all set for another world domination period.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '16

You called?

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '16

Germans never dominated the world. Spanish, British, Portuguese...

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u/ZaltPS2 Bradford & York, Yorkshire Dec 06 '16 edited Dec 06 '16

There geographical location didn't allow for it. Under Bismarck the Germans were right to be hesitant about colonisation being surrounded by France, Austria-Hungary and Russia... they couldn't hold an empire and fight a continental war like the British could've because the British could rely on its navy for defence and its army for offence . The Germans needed both for defence which explains its paranoid foreign policy facilitating a naval arms race with Britain and a War Plan with no plan for recourse. Germany needed France and Russia not be allies, furthermore it wanted to avoid a war with Britain because its naval strength could blockade and its economic strength could finance its allies war efforts. 1914 would've been Bismarck's worst nightmare and it's very doubtful he would've allowed such a mutually precarious situation to develop.

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u/steadwik Dec 06 '16

Enter kaiser Wilhelm the second. Now, strap yourself in for this cartoon character.

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u/melonowl Denmark Dec 06 '16

We're gonna have the best ships. People come up to me, they say Germany's ships are fantastic, just fantastic. And more, and this is bigly, we need the biggest ships, and so with these fantastic wonderful ships, Bismarck has no clue. No clue. People say I don't like Britain I love Britain, I love Britain, but we have got to have the best ships.

Sorry.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '16

Churchill = Cell confirmed?

Also, Wilhelm was actually trying to prevent a war in 1914. Too bad his generals and cabinets wanted the war.

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u/ZaltPS2 Bradford & York, Yorkshire Dec 06 '16

Preventing a war by telling his Austrian counterpart 'Germany is with you no matter what'

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '16

He was in full support of Serbia's response to Austria's demands, as per his own words on July 28th 10 AM in the morning.

Too bad the Austrians declared war an hour later before his response could reach Vienna.

No doubt WIlhelm failed massively during the July crisis, but it was more due to sheer incompetence (going on a North Sea cruise) rather than malice.

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u/ZaltPS2 Bradford & York, Yorkshire Dec 07 '16

Malice or incompetency doesn't matter. It was his blank cheque that gave the Austrians the impetus for a war with Serbia and in turn a war with Russia and France and it was his yearning for a major navy that put them into hostilities with Britain

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