Henry von Blumenthal @PaulinusOfTrier · 02 Sep 2026
The First World War did not erupt. Governments built it, financed it, and kept it running long past the point where any rational army would have quit the field. Franz Ferdinand's assassination in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, gave chancelleries and foreign ministries the pretext https://t.co/ns7YGHO4Xk
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