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it won't have to fight his worst nightmare, that is a war on two fronts;
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and that's exactly what happens when the French and the Russians get together.
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And, so, that's a major issue in Western Europe
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is obviously the relationship between these folks and Alsace,
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and the parts of Lorraine that had been annexed into the German Empire;
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annexed rather uncomfortably, as we'll see in awhile.
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And the other-- I just have to dodge these peripherally, but it's important to at least,
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and I'm sure you know about them anyway
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but the other thing that it's going to hinge on is really the hatred between Russia and Austria-Hungary,
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and the fact that the Russians see themselves as the protector of the Slavic peoples,
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in the Balkans,
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and the fact that the austro-Hungarian Empire is a polyglot empire,