• 30isthenew29@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    There are some key points though that if prevented could stop the whole shit. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand for one.

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      1 year ago

      Personally, I’d think that would have resulted in a very different World War in the following years, but I am genuinely of the opinion that it was unavoidable. The conflicting imperialist interests were getting more and more tense, and Bismarck’s web of alliances to keep the peace had not only already failed but had become impossible to maintain (due to those ever more rising tensions)