The change reached even the global social structure. While Russia continued to mobilize, Germany decided to attack France by going through neutral Belgium. In the course of last few centuries, the Balkans was either influenced or controlled by Russia on the east also by the Ottomans , Turkey on the south and center, Austria on the north and northwest, with the pockets of Anglo-French influence, too Greece, Serbia, Albania. Not that Wilhelm II was keen upon a grand war. Kagan, R.
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