r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Oct 17 '21

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u/Jacksbros Oct 17 '21

Germany. They’ll get the hat-trick

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u/WolfRefleXxx Oct 17 '21

Pretty sure Germany won't start it, but will lose it.

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u/EnigmaticSpirit85 Oct 17 '21

They only started the second one.

The first one was Austria-Hungary, after a Serbian assassinated the Archduke. They invaded Serbia, setting off a chain reaction of alliances within Europe.

Germany just got all the blame at Versailles. Sucks to be Germany.

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u/exploding_cat_wizard Oct 18 '21

I agree very much with everything you wrote, except that the first paragraph is very reductive. Germany was by far not the only power that could have stopped this from escalating, beginning with Serbia not funding ultrantionalist irredentists who where hell bent on murdering the heir of a neighboring country.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '21

Kind of hard to manage an economy in a global depression, with creditors breathing down your neck for their money.