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It was not mishandled, they were just objectively weaker than us. But yes they underestimated us and made a huge mistake by sending the colonial forces here.
This is a tl;dr of the diary of a white French sergeant whining about the frenzied Bulgarians and how he was forced to serve with colonial niggerjeets who were too scared to get in a fight with us and how it is unfair that he was sent here and not up there with the white people.
https://bulgarianhistory.org/zher_olivie/