In other news, I'm currently reading a wiki article on the
assassination of the Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in
1914.
Frankly speaking, I find the way the different combatants in WWI
were pulled into the conflict to be a really, really tragic chain
of events. I I believe it can be summed up as follows:
1. A Serb terrorist assassinates the Archduke.
2. Austria-Hungary vows to take revenge on Serbia, but only with
the help of their good friend Germany.
3. Russia saw both Austria-Hungary and Germany ganging up on its
good friend Serbia, and pledges to come to its aid.
4. Germany has to play punk with Russia as a result, but because
France is a good friend of Russia (and has its own grievances
against Germany), France has to be fought with as well.
5. Germany activates the Schlieffen Plan and invades France through
Belgium... and so Belgium gets into the conflict.
6. Britain was committed to come to Belgium's aid should they be
attacked... and so they came.
Aieeee..... and I still have yet to talk about the US, the
Italians, the Balkan nations, and the Ottoman Empire.
