As a result, Germany had to possess sufficient strategic resolve, while its government needed to remain clear-headed and efficient at all times. Yet under Wilhelm II's leadership, Germany was clearly unlikely to achieve any of these things.
Moreover, even if Germany could remain in peak condition, it would still need external support to secure ultimate victory—that is, other countries' governments would have to willingly sink into decay or make grave mistakes in governance. If Britain, France, and Russia were all countries like the Austro-Hungarian Empire, then it might perhaps have been possible.
The Austro-Hungarian Empire lagged so far behind among Europe's great powers mainly because of fundamental flaws in its system. Without a unified and powerful government, many beneficial policies could not be implemented with full force.
More fatally still, this inefficient government of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was Germany's most important ally at present, further increasing the difficulty of Germany winning the war.
East Africa, the United States, and Germany were entirely different. For East Africa and the United States, war was not a necessary option—at least not large-scale decisive battles. The European situation could be said to move the whole body with a single hair.
The United States and East Africa had no such worries at all. Britain could not possibly allow Canada to clash with the United States, nor could it possibly have Egypt or South Africa attack East Africa.
As regional powers, East Africa and the United States had no powerful forces around them capable of threatening either country. If the events mentioned above occurred, the two countries could instead expand as a matter of course.
The leadership of the world was basically incapable of passing peacefully into new hands. To seize the international markets controlled by Britain and France, regional turmoil, war, and similar scenarios were