Thanks for your response Joan.
The myth that Serbia “caused WWI” is nonsense, but, like other myths, continues to be perpetuated by the intellectual elite.
WWI was in the making since LONG before Gavrilo Princip was ever born and just needed the appropriate catalyst to light the fuse. The Sarajevo assassination provided the “pretense” for attacking Serbia. The Serbian government was exonerated but that didn’t matter. The Austrians gave the Serbian government an impossible ultimatum for Serbia to comply to - no nation on earth would have agreed to comply to the ultimatum of July 1914 that Austria-Hungary imposed on Serbia and Serbia was actually willing to comply to a far greater extent than she needed to. Austria was going to make war against Serbia no matter what. By presenting Serbia with an unreasonable ultimatum Austria was ensuring that self-fulfilling prophecy would indeed be fulfilled.
Like other Serbs of his generation, Gavrilo Princip had a passionate reaction to Austria-Hungary’s illegal annexation of Bosnia in 1908.
It just never ceases to amaze me how some countries and governments have the hubris to dictate how other countries conduct themselves with regards to their own survival and existence.
And it never ceases to amaze the extent to which the great powers throughout history have intended to crush little Serbia into submission.
Serbia must be perceived as a HUGE threat to something. I’d love to know just exactly what that something is.
Mark my words - if war should break out as a consequence of the blessing given to Kosovo’s “independence”, Serbia will be blamed for that, too.
That’s exactly what I have always understood, and both my father and brother have graduate studies in history, before anyone comes along and says they read something somewhere (”proof by authority”).
Gavrilo Princip was a Serbian terrorist who action sparked the war. Naturally, he was aided and abetted by Serbian Col. Apis, who of course, was tight with the Brits who pushed for war.