Germany was most responsible for the starting of WW1.

In this round, I’ll do my final rebuttals and conclusive arguments. R1: “It was in fact the blank cheque system, given by Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany to the Austrians, that allowed for them to carry out this war. The majority of the Hungarian region, which is what borders Serbia, is underdeveloped and agricultural, and lacks proper infrastructure to transport a great amount of troops. On the other hand, Austria was the industrial sector of the empire. The Parliament of Austria Hungary relied on democratic approaches, but failed significantly. The Emperor had to rule by decree, since the Austrian parliament could not agree on key issues and actions. The Hungarians perfected Parliamentary procedure by oppressing the minorities and staffing the legislature with only Hungarians. “ The blank cheque was called blank for a reason. Germany did not advise Austria neither dissuade them from declaring war, they only promised support no matter the resolution [1]. Austria was already intent on war with Serbia. They had set an ultimatum intentionally designed for the Serbians to deny to justify war [2]. As already mentioned in the previous round, Germany had little to do with Austrian aggression aside from issuing the Blank Cheque. Germany and Austria were both allies, it would have been natural then that Germany would have supported Austria. Source: 1. . http://www.history.com... 2. . http://www.firstworldwar.com... R2: “Your argument on the blank cheque is wrong on an incredulous level. The Blank Cheque system was a guarantee by the Kaiser of Germany to the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, that if any war ensued, the Austrians would have full German military and political support. “ Pro has made a misrepresentation of my argument; I had explicitly mentioned that the Blank Cheque was a declaration of Austrian support as seen here: “The Blank Cheque was only made to preserve the alliance between Germany and Austria-Hungary, they did not encourage or discourage Austrian aggression, they merely promised Austria support in whatever policy is pursued. “ Therefore, pro’s argument in the previous statement failed to prove neither disprove anything, and had only made a misrepresentation of my argument. R3: “My opponent's counterarguments are badly formed and rather weak. They are quite short, and are explained poorly, and none of my opponents facts disprove any of mine. In fact, my opponents arguments are not even close to being correct. “ In the rebuttal stage, I was yet to see how my arguments were factually incorrect or “poorly” formed as my opponent suggests. This was also seen in the beginning of the rebuttal round when my opponent said “The entirety of my opponent’s argument is nothing but pure ignorance of history. “ However in all three of his arguments, he did not explicitly explain why this was the case, instead going with the assertion that my arguments were wrong while failing to provide evidence to it. The one time that my opponent did directly address my argument (see “R1” of this round) He instead made a misrepresentation of the argument. Therefore, Pro has failed the Burden of Proof in this regard. In Conclusion: Points of my previous arguments are as followed: 1) Russia, France and Belgium began mobilizing prior to Germany’s declarations, therefore Germany cannot be held most responsible for the conflict when other countries had been preparing for war previously. 2) The “spark” that caused the war did not come from Germany, but instead came from Austrian aggression. If Austria was the first aggressor of the war and the same country that prompted Russia to mobilize, Germany cannot be held most responsible since they were not the first or main aggressors. 3) Political climate of Europe had made the Schliffen Plan necessary for Germany to survive a two front’s war. In regards to rebuttals, my opponent has failed to properly address my arguments in rebuttal. He tried to make new arguments during the rebuttal rounds, much of which was irrelevant to the main resolution. Pro had failed to adequately show how Germany was most responsible for the war (a request explicitly made in the resolution/ first round), as seen in the “disclaimer” at the end of my opponents opening argument “It is intellectually dishonest to state that Germany was the definite cause of World War I. ” He had made a conceding point, alongside failing to meet the Burden of Proof (See “R3” of the rebuttals) With all previous points said, it is therefore unreasonable to hold Germany most responsible for starting World War 1.