The Ruso Japanese War - Episodes 10 and 31

The arrival of the franco russian alliance also pretty much coincides with the arrival of tzar nicholas to the throne. It was all done before he came to power, but he's the one who inherited it his cousin, kaiser wilhelm, is then going to do everything he can to break the francorussian alliance. Willie so relentlessly encouraged nicki to go fight the japanese yellow menace on behalf of white christian civilization that the czar believed right to the end that germany would eventually join the ruso japanese war and bail him out once it started going bad. But then it turned into in catastrophe. And it was not at all