Here’s another Bismarck quote. Back in 1888, he said “One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans.”
Truer words were never spoken.
Some say that if Theodore Roosevelt had bee President in 1912, WWI could have been avoided.
A BBC show “The Fall of Eagles” gives a good historical background to the conflict. Patrick Steward does an excellent performance playing Lenin.