I came across this video and thought it raised some interesting questions.
The video doesn't say anything about parallels between then and now, that is just me thinking of the George Santayana quote, and asking what can we learn from history, and are we repeating some of the same mistakes now?
Prior to outbreak of War in 1914, there was an escalation of small events, there were alliances between small nations and super powers, and there were many backdoor attempts at de-escalation. It's a little long, but moves along at a good pace and is very well done, I thought.
Some of you are probably familiar with facts and theories in the video, but some either were new to me, or have been long forgotten.
Would be curious to hear others takes on this, first as pure history and how it all went down, and second, parallels with things we are seeing unfold now.
The video doesn't say anything about parallels between then and now, that is just me thinking of the George Santayana quote, and asking what can we learn from history, and are we repeating some of the same mistakes now?
Prior to outbreak of War in 1914, there was an escalation of small events, there were alliances between small nations and super powers, and there were many backdoor attempts at de-escalation. It's a little long, but moves along at a good pace and is very well done, I thought.
Some of you are probably familiar with facts and theories in the video, but some either were new to me, or have been long forgotten.
Would be curious to hear others takes on this, first as pure history and how it all went down, and second, parallels with things we are seeing unfold now.