• LeZero [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    Correct, WW1 would have happened regardless, Franz Ferdinand getting shot or not, the economies of western Europe were just too primed for war at that point

    • TheDoctor [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans - Otto von Bismarck (1888)

      Why is the geopolitical situation so intertwined and precarious in the Balkans, von Bismarck? big-honk