• jol
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    5 hours ago

    So you’re saying the situation was just a simmering pot and that the assassination was but the catalyst for everything that came after?

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      4 hours ago

      situation was just a simmering pot

      The situation was a simmering pot, but the ingredients were vastly different. The ingredients were an ongoing arms race, nationalism, imperialism, and the militarism of Imperial Germany.

      That said, we do have some Nazi’s in the grocery order…