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And it's one of those opinions that (IMHO) is hard to hold for someone with sufficient history training.

The murder of one archduke kicked off a world war. Of course the action of one person in the worst place at the worst time can precipitate unspeakable horror. It's happened before.

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Now, I don't know shit about shit, but from what I've tried to read on the subject, a nascent German empire after the Franco-Prussian war was ready to demand its place at the grown up table of France, England, and Russia for years.

So no, not just a single moment of bad luck turning friends into enemies.

>Germany did it.

Keep reading.

Tell me what the /pol view of WW1 is, then.

I wouldn’t know. The Sleepwalkers is a good start.

>sufficient history training

>action of one person

The murder of the archduke was a literal conspiracy. Involving high-level spooks, too.

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