[Moltke]

Heh. Now that is a fascinating piece of information. Just think, if he’d only had one drink more in that bar WWI and II might not have happened...boggles the mind.

My contribution to world peace tonight: Think I’ll have a second beer. Cheers!

[Nepeta]

Heh. Now that is a fascinating piece of information. Just think, if he’d only had one drink more in that bar WWI and II might not have happened...boggles the mind.

No, the Europeans were hell-bent on playing with their armies. They had prepared for a war for decades; everybody thought they had the ultimate plan for a quick war with few losses. Nobody planned on the trench war that followed to grind on for years. The politics might have turned out differently, but a big European war was inevitable.

It might have been better for everyone if they Kaiser had won. Everybody could have settled, and not come out of the war bled white and crazy. The Russians actually sent men to the front with NO GUNS--and since they did not issue dogtags, none of the Russian dead could be readily identified.

Americans generally know very little about WW1, which is unfortunate since it has so many lessons.

People are still making finds of WW1 debris.

By the way, Archduke Ferdinand's assassin survived the war. He remained a local hero.