Indeed, just in the decade or so before the guns of august, there were a whole series of wars throughout the Balkans, as the Ottoman Empire started to unravel,

Indeed, just in the decade or so before the guns of august, there were a whole series of wars throughout the Balkans, as the Ottoman Empire started to unravel, that primed the tinderbox and led to the events of Sarajevo. Given a few more years, it's almost inevitable that nationalist movements would have fractured and busted apart the Austro-Hungarians and their uneasy multicultural coalition, given the frightening incompetence of most of their leadership. The reunification of Italy always seems to get swept under the rug as well.