Then the winged Bismarck is flying higher facing 500 samurai at the front and that’s that’s when the dead men die again for the grace for the might of our lord.
Although he didn’t “strike the match that lit the fire” of the first World War, that arsehole was figuratively running around the room pouring gasoline everywhere. He was a warmonger, who just so happened to have been lucky enough to have been born into a military family with connections.
According to Hew Strachan, “Conrad von Hötzendorf first proposed preventive war against Serbia in 1906, and he did so again in 1908–09, in 1912–13, in October 1913, and May 1914: between January 1, 1913 and January 1, 1914, he proposed a Serbian war twenty-five times.”
And listen while I speak
Of a war
Where hell is six feet deep!
Indeed, yes.
Although he didn’t “strike the match that lit the fire” of the first World War, that arsehole was figuratively running around the room pouring gasoline everywhere. He was a warmonger, who just so happened to have been lucky enough to have been born into a military family with connections.
Conrad’s a personification of the phrase, “there’s nothing more dangerous than an enthusiastic idiot.”
Edited because: It's Thursday, silly!
You mean that Austro-Hungarian general who was a complete fuckup?
WHERE NO SOLDIERS SLEEP
AND WHERE HELL’S SIX FEET DEEP
THAT DEATH DOES WAIT, THERE’S NO DEBATE
SO CHARGE AND ATTACK
GOING TO HELL AND BACK