Hard to say was it more alliances as response to assault or clumsy military machine planning but the multiplicity of sides made it hard for diplomatic reconcilliation. And every next alliance involvement made it easier to start the war.
Or maybe in early 19xx they were all eager for war.
Well, what you bring here were war treaties on distrusting and in case of violating the borders, not peace treaties.
Pre-WWI war treaties created in fact two opposing sides which were not explicit, but unlike nowadays military treaties, like NATO, they worked in domino effect without reconcilliation.
I give it to your living on far desolated island that you don't understand that Europe has history of more than 1000 years of kickings ones butt to establish new borders.
For latest 70 years we have almost got rid of this trusting on mutual treaties.
Now we are dealing with new barbarian who says: "let's kick butts to establish new borders, like in Crimea". I know your ignorance about what does it mean in Europe comes from lack of knowledge of Europe's history.
In Europe we'd rather get rid of such barbarian because many still do know what happened after Anschluss of Sudetenland in 1938.
I wonder how many treaties Russians have to break so RacerX will say - OK, someone is breaking treaties.
There was treaty that guaranteed Ukraine's national security.
There was treaty on heavy arms withdrawal.
I don't know if you know that game when someone kicks you in the butt and you have to guess who. Well, I think you wouldn't even admit you were kicked in the ass.
I don't bother who the "nice" or "nasty" guy is.
I bother about rules, system and type of organization they provide.
Look at "Inevitable picture" thread https://www.lfs.net/forum/post/1883323#post1883323 here you can see the outcomes of absurdity they provide (on systemic level - organization is so absurd that they make such funny workarounds). Do you really want to stand up for this?
Yes, right, just as Ukraine, they started the war with Russia (or Russia powered troops) on their own territory... riiight...
Aaaah... I see - if Ukraine will stop Russia with help of west countries it would be an act of aggression?
Mind you - Russia will stop where it would be stopped, as Russia has borders with whoever they wish.
There is nothing to destroy in Venezuela. They have gasoline cheaper than water and they can't feed themselves.
This country with enormously vast grazing lands has to import meat from Argentina, milk from Switzerland, chickens from other countries.
Which btw. you can't buy in normally in the shop - there is long queue for it.
Riiiiight...
They kept cease fire with exception of: Debaltsevo and Mariupol.
Debaltsevo is now completely ruined.
btw. There was a joke on that in Poland:
"Medvedev to Putin: Just three of such cease fire treaties and we will be at Poland's border"
btw. Please don't link Dutch sources as not many can understand the langauge.
However, Dutch should understand this situation - the difference between Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine and Serbs in Bosnia is negligible.
What???
Russia occupyies foreign countries since 1780s. I don't think they come from west.
now its terrackt has bin in Kharkiv,gues who going to blame who
guess who's rally?
Sorry to say dfglkjfier, but in my opinion Russia has just said farewell! to
individualism,
human rights,
freedom of expression,
democracy,
free market competition
And not for couple of years. More like centuries, after short, ~10 years experiment in its hundreds years despotic rule history.