As I understand it, the lead-up to WWI was a maze of increasing tensions and political maneuvering between many countries during the lead up combined with a web of complex alliances, rampant nationalism, imperial ambitions of Germany, and pan-Slavism. Against that backdrop the assassination set a match to tensions between Serbia and Austria-Hungary resulting in retaliatory declaration of war which then spread rapidly across euroopr
I don't know enough about geopolitics prior to 1939 to say anything useful.
I confess I am a bit more nervous than before seeing more countries rattling their sabers over the Israel / Palestine situation. I hope things calm down but with Israel's talk of invading I fear the tensions will escalate before subsiding.
As I understand it, the lead-up to WWI was a maze of increasing tensions and political maneuvering between many countries during the lead up combined with a web of complex alliances, rampant nationalism, imperial ambitions of Germany, and pan-Slavism. Against that backdrop the assassination set a match to tensions between Serbia and Austria-Hungary resulting in retaliatory declaration of war which then spread rapidly across euroopr
I don't know enough about geopolitics prior to 1939 to say anything useful.
I confess I am a bit more nervous than before seeing more countries rattling their sabers over the Israel / Palestine situation. I hope things calm down but with Israel's talk of invading I fear the tensions will escalate before subsiding.