Yes, and don't forget who was a decisive figure in this destruction: U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. We rightly complain that he was the first progressive "dictocrat" president here at home, but his foreign meddling after the war helped set the stage for WW II. He did this largely by pursuing the calamitous policy of destroying the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Although he did this in cahoots with the French, he was still one of the major drivers of this insane policy. In breaking up A-H, he created the little states that Hitler was able to occupy one by one in the run-up to WW II.
“In breaking up A-H, he created the little states that Hitler was able to occupy one by one in the run-up to WW II.”
Austria-Hungary was destined to fail; while Austria and Hungary could have stayed together, there was no way so many different ethnic and religious minorities were going to be ruled by foreigners from the north. The number of languages spoken alone made it impractical.
“... Woodrow Wilson. We rightly complain that he was the first progressive “dictocrat” president here at home...”
“Dictocrat”!! You’ve coined a new word, my FRiend! And how it applies to our current Tnediserp in the WH.
FWIW I stumbled upon an article about the 100th anniversary of Sarajevo. In that same city on this day, Bosnian Serbs are dedicating a statue to the assassin Gavrilo Prinzip! A reenactor of Prinzip fires a pistol into the air, TWICE, to commemorate the murders of the Archduke and his wife.
They want the Serb portion of Bosnia annexed to Serbia. What a sick way to frame their demand.
I’m mostly Slovenian and I day, how typical of the Serbs.