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Oh, sure, he doesn't deserve all of the blame. But the brutal murders he perpetrated were the instigating event for almost all of 20th century history. Withou
by wtbob 11y ago
Oh, sure, he doesn't deserve all of the blame. But the brutal murders he perpetrated were the instigating event for almost all of 20th century history. Without WWI there'd have been no WWII, no Communist revolutions, no Cold War, no Korea, no Vietnam, no Holocaust — it's unknowable what an alternate history of the 20th century would look like, because the Great War completely and utterly shattered Western civilisation.
Yeah, he was a tool of others. But he was the one who pulled the trigger: the spark that ignited in the primer of his pistol cartridge is still burning.
- zlatan_todoric 11y agoYour reasoning is simple terrible and shouldn't be on HN at all. Ever. With your logic we could just say "Wars simple happen because of humans - so first humans on Earth are responsible for all wars". Go educate yourself a bit before just commenting.
- threesixandnine 11y agoYou do realize that historians agree that WW1 would happen even if there was no assassination of Archduke? It was just casus belli and not the reason for WW1. The sparks happened before with two Moroccan crises, German naval buildup, etc. It's much more complex than your simple view.