[quote=Dinh AaronMk]
Your report at the same time points out in several points there and later than Russia was considerably crippled. Even with gaining economic strength a large sum of its army was devoted to internal control over projecting its influence (which rounds back to the past major military failures and their own image of being inadequate). As well, Russia is noted by the Germans and any other observer there's a haunting "specter of Revolution" which likely could have launched with or without the war, after all this is significant class-divide within Russia which would no doubt spur larger class-conflict as is the proponent of Socialist revolution the likes of Trotsky and Lenin.Furthermore through the 19th centuries and early 20th centuries the Russian nation was time in and out rocked by coup, uprisings, and [failed] revolution making the country even more unsafe for itself. It probably would have caught fire in another wave of revolution.Russia may have had greatly expanding wealth but it didn't go to the working class. Sooner or later that'd call for large-scale disenfranchisement.
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Almost all of your points are moot because the real state of Russia doesn't matter at all in how Germany is acting. Germany acts based on their perception of Russia and Germany doesn't appear to have ever developed a time machine to look into the future and see that Russia wouldn't become a dominating powerhouse. The report clearly states that the Germans know about the "specter of revolution" yet still feared what Russia could become. German officials thought that "The opportunity for war was 'unlikely to reappear under such favorable conditions'". The report for all of page 11 starting on the second paragraph shows that the Russian rearmament program looked, to the Germans, like it was going to be incredibly successful and the third paragraph(which is a block quote) perfectly encapsulates the pressure the Germans were feeling with regards to Russia.

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[quote=Dinh AaronMK]
I meant exactly what I said, Russia moved their troops before they were involved because they were scarred of being made bitches again. If Russia hadn't mobilized then Germany wouldn't have any need to, and WWI would have stayed a small conflict in the Balkans.
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That isn't quite what I thought your first statement meant so thank you for clarifying. 

Russia was very sensitive to being made to look the fool as you have pointed out but they didn't mobilize until Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. Germany then sent a warning and after that declared war.(The Russians claimed they were only mobilizing against Austria-Hungary). What I am trying to say is that Germany and Austrian-Hungary aggression/imperialism were being significantly driven by the rising Russian threat. In the matter of Germany declaring war on Russia as I have already discussed with Dinh AaronMk, German officials thought that 1914 was going to be the time to try and bring Russia to it's knees before it could get powerful enough to roflstomp Germany. Germans were also not scared of fighting a two front war against France(who would enter the war should Germany declare war on Russia) and Russia because they knew the Russians would take a long time to mobilize and they felt comfortable in the Schlieffen plan's success and planned to have occupied Paris by Christmas. This meant that Germany could support their closest ally while simultaneously taking down two major threats to Germany, becoming a super power and achieving the dream of a German Europe.