Re “… Ultimately, nations don’t have friends and relatives, they have interests.”
Boom.
And the subjects of those nations have their OWN interests.
Gavrilo Princip and his merry band of lunatics certainly did. One wonders if he had even the remotest idea of what his assassination of Archduke Ferdinand would set in motion… and would he still have pulled the trigger if he did…
Maybe no. But can we be sure he was not a bit mental?
I have often asked myself this…