Well, if Vlad was trying to shoot a grain silo I am confused.
If someone shot a silo in Iowa, it wouldn’t lead to war.
“Well, if Vlad was trying to shoot a grain silo I am confused.
If someone shot a silo in Iowa, it wouldn’t lead to war.”
And nobody expected a world war when an archduke was assassinated in Sarajevo, either. In fact, the Kaiser spent the summer on the yacht of his good pal, the Czar of Russia. In a few weeks their nations were at war. “The Guns of August” offers an excellent case study of how events escalate beyond the desires of the participants, and grow beyond their control. At the end, the Kaiser was almost begging his advisors for a way to stop the coming slaughter. They could not. And now, decision making loops are in minutes, not days.
“I said MISSILE silos you idiot!”
I’m guessing large wars have been started because of less. IIRC, Hitler justified his bombing of civilian areas in London because on a early bombing raid an errant Allied bomb hit some farmer’s barn.