Also on the diplomatic front, Bismarck orchestrated the League of the Three Emperors between the German, Austro-Hungarian, and Russian Empires; while the league did not last, the Triple Alliance was created between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy. This was a defensive alliance in order to contain a possible attack from France. Bismarck even foresaw World War I by giving a warning to Kaiser Wilhelm II, the grandson of the first Kaiser, by stating “One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans”. One of the causes of World War I was over nationalism in the