Quote Originally Posted by vartan View Post
Sorry if this is slightly OT (not only your last paragraph, but my proceeding reply), but can you or any historian talk about whether this happened usually in antiquity? or even in any other period of time, up until today? I never noticed this in TW.
I wouldn't call myself a historian, it'd make actual historians shake their heads in disbelief at anything I said. I've been trying think of a time when this has happened in history. I can't think of any wars in which one country had an actual alliance with both belligerants at the start. Normally it seems that the two sides are made up of blocks of alliances that are already set against each other before war breaks out.