I just watched two BBC programs about the Great War (WWI) [1] and the similarities between that episode in history and this one are chilling. Don't get me wron

I just watched two BBC programs about the Great War (WWI) [1] and the similarities between that episode in history and this one are chilling. Don't get me wrong, I don't think we will have WWIII but the way the pieces are moving on the set (at least so far) is eerily familiar. [1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/tv-and-radio-reviews/10660290/The-Necessary-War-BBC-Two-review.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/tv-and-radio-r... EDIT: in case people as for details, the most obvious is the treaty that Belgium and UK had entered into which became the casus belli for the UK once Germany invaded Belgium. Today there's the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances [2] between Russia, the USA, and the UK and Ukraine of course. [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Security_Assurances http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Security...