> Russia has an alliance with Serbia. Not mobilising would have had significant international repercussions Russia was in no state to fight a war. They lost a

> Russia has an alliance with Serbia. Not mobilising would have had significant international repercussions Russia was in no state to fight a war. They lost a war to a second tier global power and not so long and barely survived a major revolution (which was hardly over). Negotiating with Austria/Germany and forcing Serbia to give up the people responsible for the assassination would’ve been the only reasonable choice. Instead the tsar being the incompetent idiot (understatement that man was truly special…) that he was decided to sacrifice his entire family and million of Russians (not that he cared) and destroy the Russian state itself. Same might be said about the kaiser Wilhelm, but: 1. Germany actually stood a chance 2. Wasn’t on the brink of a complete political/social collapse like Russia at the time