With no responses from the central government, French (in particular) and Russian troops stationed along border positions skirmished with German forces in unofficial affairs that went mostly unaddressed officially by President Drip and David. There were also numerous reports of German military units crossing the undefended borders with impunity. Businesses, fearing an outbreak of war and destruction of resources as well as a loss of assets to the conquering German armies, pulled out entirely and ceased new development of border areas. As their governments raced to patch together a defense and transport defensive troops to the borders, the real estate prices of borderlands dropped dramatically. The heavy presence of military forces along major international lines caused panics amongst the French, Italians, and Russians. The Stu Doctrine asserted that a robust infrastructural defense was impractical for an ever-expanding and massive empire like Germany's, and believed that focus on an unrivaled and unstoppable lightning war-capable military machine would eliminate all of Germany's enemies and therefore eliminate the need for localized static defenses. As Germany's militarization increased each year, Kaiser Stu, whose Stu Doctrine was opposed to a strong infrastructural defense of the fatherland, stationed most of his forces along borderlands with his neighbors. In each of the aforementioned states minus Spain, local residents were extremely resentful of the German Empire's presence. The Central Europe Skirmishes were a series of border disputes and small battles between the Imperial Defense Force and Germany's neighbors in mostly unsanctioned warfare (meaning that Germany had not declared war on/nor had war decalared on themselves) with combatants from France, Spain, Russia, and Italy. The timing was perfect for the British Germany was currently facing tense times in the fatherland of the empire. Instead of simply issuing another press release and receiving a meaningless "that's hogwash" from Kaiser Stu, King Nick suggested to his friend and noted academic Professor British Bag to draft a new work that would introduce to the international community a more thorough and critical look at the ideology and questionable ruling of the global German Empire while still giving an objective presentation of Germany's neighbors and frequent rivals, Britain and Russia. However, after receiving nonstop reports of extensiveness and growing hypocrisy from the Imperial German government, King Nick decided he'd heard enough of "the British Bag scum kill people and take over places". Recognizing Stu's sensitivity to foreign criticism and significant military presence in Europe and elsewhere, he did not seek to be remembered in the history books as a promoter of a harsh exchange of words that would rile up both nations until a nationalist fervor caused both nations' peoples to beg for war. King Nick had previously urged restraint to his government's own press officer and the British press when responding to official rhetoric released from Reichsville. "Dreikaiserbund" was published during a difficult time on mainland Europe, particularly for the German Empire, whose juggernaut military force had experienced a series of setbacks and bunglings after a period of controversial German foreign policy.
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