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World War One: 10 interpretations of who started WW1
BBC News Magazine ^
| February 11, 2014
| BBC
Posted on 02/20/2014 2:15:56 PM PST by Ravnagora
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posted on
02/20/2014 2:15:56 PM PST
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Ravnagora
To: joan; Smartass; zagor-te-nej; Lion in Winter; Honorary Serb; jb6; Incorrigible; DTA; vooch; ...
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posted on
02/20/2014 2:23:04 PM PST
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Ravnagora
To: Ravnagora
Gerhard Hirschfeld - professor of modern and contemporary history, University of Stuttgart Austria-Hungary, Germany, Russia, France, Britain and Serbia
How did Italy, Montenegro and Andorra avoid blame too?
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posted on
02/20/2014 2:24:14 PM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Recycled Olympic tagline Shut up, Bob Costas. Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!)
To: Ravnagora
Self ping for later. i am just a geek for “The Great War”.
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posted on
02/20/2014 2:24:52 PM PST
by
fhayek
To: Ravnagora
To quote George Costanza, “It was the Moops.”
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posted on
02/20/2014 2:26:29 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Ravnagora
The cousins never fired a shot in anger. The peasants died in droves.
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posted on
02/20/2014 2:44:18 PM PST
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DariusBane
(Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept?)
To: Ravnagora
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posted on
02/20/2014 2:47:38 PM PST
by
combat_boots
(The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
a Bosnian Serb nationalist
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posted on
02/20/2014 2:49:11 PM PST
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combat_boots
(The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
To: Ravnagora
Well known fact Kaisher Wilhem was a***hole
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posted on
02/20/2014 2:49:43 PM PST
by
SevenofNine
(We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
To: Ravnagora
Thank you for posting this.
I’ve always believed that World War II was a family feud writ large using the armed forces of the various nations that the various Royal houses controlled.
Today though I would say that although the Family Feud theory still holds some water it was much more than that. I think today that it was build-up of internal national tensions. Those tensions and the belief that they would explode in the faces of the various ruling aristocracies needed an outlet and when the excuse for war presented by Arch-duke Ferdinand’s assassination occurred. They grabbed it with the hope that it really wouldn’t be that bad and that the various nationalistic groups would be bottled up for another generation.
I can see that as a form of ‘kick the can down the road’. The assorted colonies around the world had served as an outlet for the more adventurous of their citizens was now seen as soon coming to an end. They were not getting back as much as they putting out to maintain them and that also put another type of tension.
All in all the European continent was doomed to go to war.
To: Ravnagora
One thing for sure:
There was *NO* reason for America to have anything to do with it.
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posted on
02/20/2014 2:51:21 PM PST
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RedStateRocker
(Nuke Mecca, deport all illegal aliens, abolish the IRS, DEA and ATF.)
To: Ravnagora
As nations gear up to mark 100 years since the start of World War One Kudos go to the Ukrainians for staging a timely crisis to commemorate the war!
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posted on
02/20/2014 2:52:11 PM PST
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MeganC
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To: KarlInOhio
How did Italy, Montenegro and Andorra avoid blame too? I'm waiting for someone to blame Bush and Global Warming!
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02/20/2014 2:53:08 PM PST
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MeganC
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To: Ravnagora
According to the common core curriculum, the great war was started by George W. Bush to kill black people and homosexuals.
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posted on
02/20/2014 2:53:45 PM PST
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MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: Ravnagora
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posted on
02/20/2014 2:53:54 PM PST
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JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono
Good toon......thats exactly how it went.....if there weren’t so many alliances it wouldn’t have exploded so big.
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
02/20/2014 2:57:57 PM PST
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Bidimus1
To: Ravnagora
All I know is my grandfather proudly flew a fighter FOR Germany in WWI and led B-17 squadrons in to drop bombs ON Germany in WWII.
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posted on
02/20/2014 3:00:54 PM PST
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Jewbacca
(The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
To: combat_boots
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posted on
02/20/2014 3:02:13 PM PST
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combat_boots
(The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
To: RedStateRocker
Not even the Zimmerman Note? Inviting Mexico to attack the United States is a pretty clear casus belli.
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posted on
02/20/2014 3:05:23 PM PST
by
Colonel_Flagg
(Some people meet their heroes. I raised mine. Go Army.)
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