OH darn I missed copying and pasting the very first word in the paragraph. The “It”. Sorry folks. Lol
Even if Princip had missed entirely and done nothing more than gotten himself beaten to a pulp as a result, Europe was a powder keg in 1914 and Franz Ferdinand’s assassination was simply the spark the explosion had been looking for.
History most likely would have turned out somewhat differently; perhaps no Bolshevik Revolution if the Germans hadn’t decided to smuggle Lenin into Russia to stir things up, but in any event an all-out European war was probably inevitable. Everyone wanted it.
The key element in what caused a Serbian nationalist to kill Ferdinand (the crown prince of the Austro-Hungarian empire) was the annexing of Bosnia-Herzegovina by the Austro-Hungarians (through their crafty foreign minister doing a fake deal with the Russian foreign minister, who was an machinating idiot who worked for an equally childish weak Tsar Nicholas II). The Russian foreign minister had a chat with the Prince of Wales in 1908, and tried to pull off the free access to the Black Sea through the Dardanelles (a long time Russian goal since the Ottoman Turks had overrun Europe capturing and controlling the Dardanelles for more than 400 years) from the Turks.
This all happened when England’s Edward VII mades a visit to Russia to settle an alliance with Russia. The Russian Foreign Minister Alexander Izvolsky, had his sights set as a careerist (for freedom for what remained of the navy after the Battle of Port Arthur destroyed their Pacific fleet by the Japs in 1905). All this because he thought the Turks were weakly in control of Bosnia-HG. Rather than getting peace in the Balkans, he was out manoeuvred by Austrian Foreign Minister Alois Lexa von Aehrenthal when Austria annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina. Serbia didn’t like this at all and the nationalists, thinking they had the backing of the Russians (which they assumed they would from the Christian Orthodox world)in the next 5 years rose up with violence against Bosnians/HGs and eventually caused WWI by killing the heir. Russia(and ally France) had war declared on them, by Germany and Austro-Hungary.
This is the kind of crap going on in the background with obamaumao and Syria (still trying to pay for al-Qaeda support with US money against Iranian supported Assad— truly amazing, and McCain is sing that tune too— Thanks to Valerie (black-Iranian)Jarrett’s manipulation to further bog us in useless intrigue... against... Putin.
The key element in what caused a Serbian nationalist to kill Ferdinand (the crown prince of the Austro-Hungarian empire) was the annexing of Bosnia-Herzegovina by the Austro-Hungarians (through their crafty foreign minister doing a fake deal with the Russian foreign minister, who was an machinating idiot who worked for an equally childish weak Tsar Nicholas II). The Russian foreign minister had a chat with the Prince of Wales in 1908, and tried to pull off the free access to the Black Sea through the Dardanelles (a long time Russian goal since the Ottoman Turks had overrun Europe capturing and controlling the Dardanelles for more than 400 years) from the Turks.
This all happened when England’s Edward VII mades a visit to Russia to settle an alliance with Russia. The Russian Foreign Minister Alexander Izvolsky, had his sights set as a careerist (for freedom for what remained of the navy after the Battle of Port Arthur destroyed their Pacific fleet by the Japs in 1905). All this because he thought the Turks were weakly in control of Bosnia-HG. Rather than getting peace in the Balkans, he was out manoeuvred by Austrian Foreign Minister Alois Lexa von Aehrenthal when Austria annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina. Serbia didn’t like this at all and the nationalists, thinking they had the backing of the Russians (which they assumed they would from the Christian Orthodox world)in the next 5 years rose up with violence against Bosnians/HGs and eventually caused WWI by killing the heir. Russia(and ally France) had war declared on them, by Germany and Austro-Hungary.
This is the kind of crap going on in the background with obamaumao and Syria (still trying to pay for al-Qaeda support with US money against Iranian supported Assad— truly amazing, and McCain is sing that tune too— Thanks to Valerie (black-Iranian)Jarrett’s manipulation to further bog us in useless intrigue... against... Putin.