Why did Bismarck try his best to stop militarism before his death?

To understand why Bismarck should guard against militarism, we must understand what militarism is.

Militarism Nazism is nationalism and Japan is the real militarism, so I will take Japan as an example.

Militarism refers to the ideology and political system that advocates force and military expansion, takes belligerence and aggression and expansion as the foundation of the country, puts the country under military control completely, and makes politics, economy, culture and education serve the expansion and preparation for war.

Militarism is a trap, a trap that seems to be extremely powerful if you jump in. In fact, jumping in is a bottomless pit.

From the change of Japan's China strategy, we can see the difference between militarism and general government: Japan coveted China from 1840, but in fact, from 1840 to 1945, Japan's political system has undergone tremendous changes.

There was a turning point in this change, that is, the "Huanggutun Incident" in 1928, in which the Japanese Kwantung Army killed the northeast warlord Zhang.

Before 1928, Japan had long coveted China, and since the Meiji Restoration, Japan began to invade China.

The most important person is the legendary Japanese Prime Minister Ito Bowen. During this period, Ito Bowen's cabinet decided that "if you want to conquer the world, you must first conquer China, and if you want to conquer China, you must first conquer Manchuria." Major policies and strategies.

During Ito Bowen's period, Japan began to dump a lot of cotton to the northeast of China as the basis of its economic aggression.

In the following decades, the Japanese began to foster spokesmen in the Northeast, and finally chose Zhang.

Zhang always speaks beautifully to the Japanese, but he just doesn't carry it out. However, Zhang had a tacit understanding with then Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiichi Tanaka, and Zhang acquiesced in Japan's soft aggression. However, Japan cannot play hardball and has to serve Zhang.

Japan once bought more than 4 million ordnance for Zhang, and later helped Zhang Jian set up an arsenal. Moreover, the Japanese cabinet has also received preferential policies for immigrants and Japanese businessmen to enter the Northeast. The Japanese hoped that China people would become a minority in Northeast China through immigration, thus occupying Northeast China.

Zhang's response is:

Not only did the restrictions on Japanese immigrants be liberalized, but Shanhaiguan was also liberalized, allowing people inside Shanhaiguan to farm outside Shanhaiguan. Northeasters are forbidden to rent to Japanese. Two rules, the first one makes Japan's immigration plan a joke. Japan has just immigrated 100,100, 000. The second thing is that the Japanese who come can't stay. The weather in the northeast, no house to live in. Let the kwantung army help build the house, but there are only a few people in the kwantung army, so it is impossible to immigrate many people every day.

At first glance, the Japanese cabinet can only do this. It lost a move and accepted it.

After 1928, the cabinet recognized the planting, but the Kwantung Army was not convinced, so Zhang was killed in Huanggutun.

At that time, the cabinet was shocked by the news. No one knows who gave the order, and the cabinet won't make such a stupid decision.

So Tanaka went to see Hirohito. Hirohito cursed Tanaka for being stupid, and Tanaka was very wronged. He held a meeting to hold the principal responsible for planning the "Huanggutun Incident". And at the beginning of the meeting, the military began to attack, accusing Tanaka of being too weak in China's strategy. Tanaka realized that all this was aimed at the cabinet.

A year later, the cabinet fell and a new cabinet came to power, and Japan has begun to move closer to militarism.

Instead of political exchanges, the Japanese cabinet was extremely enthusiastic about the war and soon launched a war of aggression against China.

The influence of militarism on Japanese politics. Militarism comes down to this: guns decide everything!

But anyone familiar with history knows that war is only a political extension. A promising country must need a large number of politicians to manage the country, and the war must be decided by politics.

Because politicians are calm enough, politicians only consider pros and cons and risks. However, soldiers are often irrational and easy to make behaviors that are unfavorable to the overall situation.

Therefore, for quite some time after the war, Japan once triumphed because of the construction of the army. This is inseparable from the industrial level and economic strength of the two countries.

However, once it entered the stalemate stage, the Japanese headquarters repeatedly issued wrong orders, such as "Changsha Campaign", "Kunlun Pass Campaign", "Attack on Pearl Harbor" and "Decisive Battle on Midway Island". Japan lost its ability to predict the overall situation, but replaced it with militarism. This sentiment has been spreading in the Japanese staff headquarters.

Such an uncertain guide will lead the country to a cliff!

So Bismarck will never let Germany fall into the nightmare of militarism, because he is a politician and one of the best politicians in western history.