[claudiustg]

-—With each passing hour it becomes less likely this will produce a similiar situation to the Duke’s assasination that kicked off World War 1.-—

It took a month for the major powers to actually go to war and a string of actions without which war might have been diverted. The hours after had little to do with it. We don’t really know which incident might start the chain of events or even what the chain of events might look like. The politicians back then thought they were playing a game which would benefit them, not incinerate there world.

[JasonC]

There was nothing inevitable about that sequence, and there was actual political support for the side that committed the assassination. The article is dumb as a post when it makes that comparison.

[Badeye]

‘It took a month for the major powers to actually go to war and a string of actions without which war might have been diverted. The hours after had little to do with it’

The world moves at a much faster pace in all aspects today than in it did in 1914.