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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I would add on that the subset to this was his decision to go to the front during WW1 and lost control of the government in place. It also put his wife firmly in the lime light of the people's hatred, and further turned the people against the government. And frankly he didn't accomplish anything on the front as the Russian Army was already demoralized, and his appearance wouldn't increase moral.
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He also at one point ordered the Russian military to stop mobilizing. He was friends (and 3rd cousins ) with Kaiser Wilhelm, but let himself get bullied by the Duma's foreign minister Sergey Sazonov, who had no intention to listen to him