On Wednesday, March 24, 2021 at 11:57:04 AM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2021-03-24 3:21 p.m., Bruce wrote:
> > On Wed, 24 Mar 2021 14:41:33 -0400, Dave Smith
> ermans
> >>
> >> Mountbatten is an Anglo version of Phillip's real name, Von Battenburg.
> >>
> > Without looking very far back in time: the Dutch king is 75% German
> > and 25% Dutch. His children, including the future Queen, are 50%
> > Argentinian, 37% German and 13% Dutch. It's all a load of nonsense.
> >
> When WWI broke out the King of England, the Russian Tsar and the German
> Kaiser were all cousins.

These alliances were supposed to strengthen the ties between the Europeans but they seemed to be pretty ineffective. The Americans were better at maintaining peace within their continent. Not great, just better.