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Studied WW1 in school but never went hard on the July Crisis that started it.

Read up on it now and feeling like the Treaty of Versailles was a lot less unfair than I previously thought.

Also surprised by how much Britain was the only adult in the room. They tried really quite hard to prevent the catastrophe.
Serbia was like, “look, Austria. We’ll give you literally everything you’re asking for.” Britain was like, “let’s talk this out guys”. Austria was like, “hmm, maybe”. Germany was like “LEROY JENKINS! Btw, invading Luxembourg. Lol!”
Ben Curthoys

@goatsarah The Rest Is History did a good series on the build up, if you like that sort of thing.