[BroJoeK]

Reverend Wright on August 1914: "The alliances and treaties pulled everyone into a small Balkan war, and made it a continent wide European war."

Not really, because at the core of your idea here is a Big Lie believed by many and perpetrated by WWI losers, that they were not responsible, that it was all just a big mistake, an accident that nobody caused and nobody should be held to account for.

In fact, by 1914, the German High Command had been looking for years, for an excuse, an incident they could use as pretext for starting the war they wanted to fight -- their Schlieffen Plan, invading France through Belgium before turning east to conquer Russia.

In June 1914, that pretext arrived, gift wrapped, in the form of the assassination of the Kaiser's personal close friend, the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand and his wife in Sarajevo.
The old Austrian Emperor, Franz Joseph, didn't like his nephew Ferdinand or especially Ferdinand's wife Sophie, and was just as happy to see them dead, but the German High Command, with the Kaiser's approval, urged, pressured, pushed the Austrians into issuing an ultimatum to Serbia, rejecting Serbia's reasonable response, to immediately declare war and invade Serbia.

Knowing how Russians would react, the Kaiser himself wanted a very quick war against Serbia, urging Austrians to invade quickly and then end it quickly, before the rest of Europe had time to respond.
But it didn't happen quickly enough, and by the time Austria declared war, Russians were already beginning to mobilize.
At some point right here the Kaiser himself lost courage, not wanting to start a larger war, but he was, in effect, overruled by his High Command, and so ultimatums were issued, war against Russia declared and the very next day, Germany invaded Luxembourg!!

So, the First World War was not an "accident", it was not avoidable, it was in fact the execution of a plan, the Schlieffen Plan first devised in 1905.

Reverend Wright: "NATO will pull everyone into a small Eastern Europe war, and make it a global war."

Of course, that is the whole purpose of NATO, but it can only ever happen if Vlad the Invading War Criminal decides he wants to commit national "suicide by cop", in this case, "suicide by NATO".
Then the world will pay a terrible price, but the Russian nation will be utterly destroyed, in the same way as the losers of the Second World War, only I fear, far worse.

German plans for 1914 War, based on Schlieffen Plan:

[Reverend Wright]

There were factions in every country eager to go to war. And factions who wanted to avoid war.

The alliances, treaties, and moralistic rhetoric on "punishing aggression" strengthened the hand of the pro-war factions, and helped to pull them all into a continent wide war.

We will see the same when the times comes in NATO.

Article 5 does not require every member to join an Article 5 war. But when the war starts, the pro-war faction will demand that every country "meet its NATO obligations" and join the war.

Again, the alliances will make the war bigger.

BTW, Germany was not the only country which had long standing war plans to attack and seize territory.