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Except nobody attacked or even threatened Russia and Germany so it’s not really comparable to Pearl Harbor at all. There was really nothing or almost nothing t
by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Except nobody attacked or even threatened Russia and Germany so it’s not really comparable to Pearl Harbor at all.
There was really nothing or almost nothing to gain and everything to lose for all the aides involved in WW1. So I’d say it was stupidity rather than weakness. Relatively to its scale it was probably the most pointless war in human history.
The things it achieved, end of monarchy in Central/Eastern Europe and the eventual collapse of global European empires are not something the people who started it ever wanted.
- wolverine876 3y agoI think it's very easy to sit at a computer in 2023 and type that, dismissing all the forces involved as 'stupidity' (including and especially, the politics). We learn nothing about the reality of such things and doom ourselves to ignorance and then actual stupidity.