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Originally Posted by Dante Hicks
I'm pretty sure we had more than one fight with the Germanic speaking people in the last century though.
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I'm not sure WW2 counts, given the Anschluss and the dominance of Germany.
As for WW1, Austria-Hungary spent most of its time fighting Russia and the various Balkan/Eastern European states.
The Austrian Empire prior to the compromise with Hungary spent most of its time fighting France in the Napoleonic Wars. We happened to be fighting France too, so not too much in the way of bad blood there. Prior to that time, it's all about the Holy Roman Empire.