Bab 186: Rise of the Progressive Party

There was a saying that Bruno had once heard in his past life, and the older he got the more it made sense. "A society only has the amount of crime it is willing to tolerate…" Why did the black market arms trade exist in this world, despite the measures that could be taken to effectively eradicate it? 

Because sometimes the great powers needed to supply the enemies of their enemies with weapons and munitions. Only that it could be quite embarrassing to have their finger prints on the guns… This was exactly what Bruno had down to help aid the various rebel groups in the Balkans in their aims to throw off the yoke of Ottoman oppression. 

Was the Kaiser aware of these activities? Not at all, nor the German High Command, for that matter. This made it all the easier to put up a convincing façade to the world who began pointing fingers at the Reich.