[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

For whatever reason I’m watching a lot of videos and reading about events leading up to WWI.

Cant help but drawing comparisons to Austria Hungary of 1914.

Aging empire in decline - check.
Huge internal ethnic tensions - check.
Doddering old leader- check.

Big difference is the degree to which we are doing this to ourselves. I don’t see the Austro Hungarians as being so eager to destroy themselves.

[Reily]

I’ve drawing the same correlation.
We’re Austro-Hungary
Europe is Imperial Russia - the only regime more inept then Austro-Hungary.

These I can’t decide - Who the ‘up-and-coming’ powers are.
Perhaps
Russia is either pre-WWI USA or Imperial Germany.
China is either pre-WWI USA or Imperial Germany.

I bounce back and forth on those analogies.