What really got World War 1 going? Paperwork, called treaties, right?
France's alliance with Russia.
“What really got World War 1 going? Paperwork, called treaties, right? “
More than Treaties, sections of the Elites in all the Great Powers took unauthorized actions, against the orders of their own governments, to make the war more likely to happen.
They concealed information, exaggerated guarantees, exceeded their diplomatic instructions, fabricated events, issued unauthorized orders.
The Elites used the treaties as an argument to go to war. But they also ignored the instructions of their own governments and, in effect, declared a State of Exception for themselves, and took unauthorized or forbidden actions to make the war more likely.
What really got World War 1 going? Paperwork, called treaties, right?
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You’re correct. IIRC one of treaties was from the 1840’s.