Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "The Armchair Historian"
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It was not because the art.7 of the treaty of the triple alliance clearly stated that one of the signatories (and that meant Austria, the one that had interests in starting a war there) could start a war in the balkans ONLY BY MUTUAL ACCORD OF THE OTHERS. By keeping Italy out of the decision process (not only by inertia, but actively refusing a British proposal of a mediation involving Italy in July 1914) and unilaterally declaring war on Serbia, Austria broke the treaty on 28/07/1914, so Italy and Austria were no more allies. It remained the question of the compensations (See Art. 7 again) and, over that, war was declared on 23/05/1915.
Germany had no role there. The question was between Italy and Austria-Hungary. The German Empire at that point was only someone that decided to back up Austria-Hungary, and unilaterally declared war on France and Belgium in the strange belief that it would have made a war with Russia simpler. There was no part in the Triple Alliance stating that the others had to follow it in such a folly. However, ITALY DID NOT DECLARED WAR TO GERMANY AT THAT POINT, it did only in August 1916, after Germany put Italy under economic sanctions and German soldiers began to show up on the Italian front.
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No.
Thanks to the mediation of the German emissary Von Bulow, FIRST the Austrian Foreign Minister Berchtold promised the Trentino, and that would have been enough. THEN Berchtold was replaced by Burián, THAT RENEGED ANY PROMISE, so undermining the position of Von Bulow as a mediator and of the Italian neutralists (Giolitti that, believing to Berchtold's promises, had previously exposed himself, saying that Italy would have obtained "much" by neutrality, was mocked in the Parliament when it was clear that Austria-Hungary would have given "nothing" instead).
At that point the Italian Foreign Minister Sonnino presented his requests to the Entente.
Only when the negotiations with the Entente were almost complete, maybe realizing the mistake, Burián offered a small part of the Trentino, and only at the end of the war, but, at that point, it was too little, too late (Belgrade in exchange of a pair of alpine valleys?).
Italy entered in the war because the idiotic Austrian diplomacy managed to undermine the position of anyone that wanted to avoid a war with it.
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