Btw I checked Wiki article on
Otto von Bismarck and noticed this (pics removed):
Quote:
Last warning and prediction
In December 1897, Wilhelm II visited Bismarck for the last time. Bismarck again warned the Kaiser about the dangers of improvising government policy based on the intrigues of courtiers and militarists. Bismarck's last warning was: Your Majesty, so long as you have this present officer corps, you can do as you please. But when this is no longer the case, it will be very different for you.[56]
Subsequently, Bismarck made these accurate predictions: "Jena came twenty years after the death of Frederick the Great; the crash will come twenty years after my departure if things go on like this" - a prophecy fulfilled almost to the month.[57]
"One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans".[58]
Bismarck had warned in February 1888 of a Balkan crisis turning into a world war (although when that war did come in 1914, the Balkan country was Serbia, not Bulgaria).[59]
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I didn't know this before. That accurate prediction of what will happen in next 20 years is quite impressive.
