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Re: Why Does Everything Suck?

Posted by Kew Gardens Teleport on Mon Apr 4 08:48:03 2011, in response to Re: Why Does Everything Suck?, posted by Newkirk Images on Sun Apr 3 22:46:46 2011.

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Some Serb shot some Austrian, Austria issued an ultimatum to Serbia, Serbia ran running to Russia, Austria got Germany on side, and Britain and France were too stupid to renege on their deal with the Russians and keep out of it.

In short everyone mismanaged a little local difficulty in the Balkans and turned it into a bloodbath in countries that really had nothing to do with the original argument. And ironically, despite German war guilt being enshrined in the Peace of Paris, they were probably the least culpable of the lot: once Russia was threatening Austria, there would have been serious balance-of-powers issues if they had not intervened on the Austrian side; and once they knew that France wasn't going to keep out of it and—worse still—had the support of Britain, they needed to act pre-emptively in the West and knock France out, or be faced with the logistical nightmare they ended up in in reality.

But to complete the precis, the Italians eventually decided that they'd like to join in kicking some Austrian butt. Then America turned up late and claimed victory.

It comprehensively trashed the economies of all involved, and the only reason the 1920s weren't an unmitigated disaster was that so many young men had been killed in the war that it hid the unemployment timebomb for a decade.

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