Posted on 05/17/2024 8:21:41 PM PDT by RandFan
I always remember from history class that WW1 started for some sad reason (the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand). I always thought how stupid / futile it was considering what it led to.
Yet here we are with the Slovak PM assassination attempt.
Gavrilo Princip (Serbian Cyrillic: Гаврило Принцип, pronounced [ɡǎʋrilo prǐntsip]; 25 July 1894 – 28 April 1918) was a Bosnian Serb student who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and his wife Sophie, Duchess von Hohenberg, in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. The killing of the Archduke and his wife set off the July Crisis, a chain of events that within one month led to the outbreak of World War I.
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It spread because of France’s Alliance with Russia.
That war was a fire looking for a spark. The assassination was an excuse, not the cause.
Not entirely. The stupidest human enterprise is shared to varying degrees by all parties.
There are some interesting if not different parallels often it’s something minor that sparks the wider conflict.
We better watch out because there is plenty going on is my point...
Princip looked like the kind of punk who you'd find smoking dope at the arcade with the other dirtball yardapes.
And this from wiki p... The Sykes-Picot Agreement was a secret treaty between Britain and France signed on May 16, 1916, that divided the Ottoman Empire’s territories in the Arab Orient and Anatolia.
Oil oil not olive oil
So it’s Russia and Belarus vs all of Europe?
I agree but look where we are now as a comparison to that period
So much going on
Perhaps I fret too much
Well the French and British didn’t like the fact there was a new kid on the block when Germany united in 1871.
German Chancellor Theobold Bethmann-Hollweg, when asked by Prince von Bulow how World War I began, replied,
“Oh, if we only knew.”
https://networks.h-net.org/group/28443/discussions/12889803/query-kennedy-guns-august-quote
VON BULOW: “At last, I said to him: ‘Well, tell me, at least, how it all happened.’ He (Bethmann-Hollweg) raised his long, thin arms to heaven and answered in a dull, exhausted voice: ‘Oh — if we only knew!’
In many later polemics on ‘war-guilt’ I have often wished it had been possible to produce a snapshot of Bethmann-Hollweg standing there at the moment he said those words.”
That is a very very simplistic explanation.
I had the same thought.
Yeah, but Europe is not a rats nest of inbred royals these days. I think we are fine.
How do you explain Putin?
I think one of the parallels with Germany after WWI, is that many Russians feel that the Soviet Union was “stabbed in the back”, in the same way that Hitler exploited the “stabbed in the back” sentiment in Germany after WWI.
I believe that if we voted for Bush 41 in 1992, he would have done more to help Russia in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Therefore, no Putin today.
Reagan advocated a Marshall Plan like program for Russia, I don’t think Bush would have done it.
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