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This was a great, old anecdote. Until they’ve started the biggest European war of the century.
by wiseowise 2mo ago
This was a great, old anecdote. Until they’ve started the biggest European war of the century.
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- somenameforme 2mo agoThe scale of a war is more often decided by who decides to unexpectedly jump in moreso than the initial party. WW1 starts when a Bosnian Serb assassinates an Austro-Hungarian royal leading to Austria-Hungary invading Serbia. The the next thing you know Brits are killing Germans over it. There are endless border clashes. Even in very recent times we have Armenia-Azerbaijan, Afghanistan-Pakistan, Thailand-Cambodia, and many more. Wiki gives more than 60 in the 21st century [1], and we're just getting started! And if other parties had decided to get involved and start jamming up the escalation ladder, any of those could have easily turned into a much bigger war, instead of being just yet another relatively inconsequential border conflict. Or imagine if another country (perhaps Russia or China) had decided to 'pull a US' when the US invaded any of the countless countries we've invaded over the years - Iraq, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Yemen, and so on just in quite recent times. That could very well have led to WW3, but it didn't because they didn't. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_border_conflicts#21st_century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_border_conflicts#21st_...