Franz ferdinand was probably the only supporter of the Serbs in the Austro-Hungarian royal family

an he fuckin shoots him infront of his wife, on a serbian national holiday, where Ferdinand is there to visit to show support to them, and was literally on the way to the hospital to meet the people that were injured in an attempted grenade bombing of his touring top car that he was still in from earlier that day

then the nigga jumps a bridge into a ditch, breaks his leg, eats an out of date cyanide pill

and the whole thing just spirals out of control

an the funny thing is there was still like 2 or 3 chances to stop the war after that

holy Jesus I didn't know the situation was that retarded, knew it was bad, but not that bad

THE NIGGA LOST THE BOTTLE TO SHOOT HIM, GOT A SANDWICH AT A CAFE, AND AS HE SAT DOWN TO EAT THE ARCHDUKE'S CAR TURNS ONTO THAT STREET BY ACCIDENT

it's like forreal

nigga

like

Princep always seemed like a faggot tbh

the whole young serb/black hand lot were

Didn't think that shit through

yeah

Same stock as a lot of young, idealistic and stupid men tbh

I do know the build up to WW1, and it's just sad

some final destination shit right there

The centennial of the end of the war was this week

the build up is absolutely incredible

you literally couldn't write some of the shit that happens

like a slow burning fuse that no one put out

nah

like a fuse that everyone tries to put out with their feet but slips on a banana peel every time 😂

the whole thing ramps up in about the space of a month

It's the saddest comedy of errors

not even errors

like they're literally about to sign a 'WE ARE NOT GOING TO WAR' agreement between the austrians and the russians, the austrian guy goes over to the russians house, and then dies of a heart attack before he signed the fucking thing

that very evening

it's like

holy fucking shit

@Potato Man the russians invading didn’t help

@CheekyOGNutZach this is before even that

god really wanted to see a big war

Invading then getting absolutely smacked back

that agreement was to agree no mobilisation

Bismarck and the Tsar were closely related

cousins aye

apparently they telegrammed

They spent a lot of time trying to end the war personally but sadly the machine had already been set in motion

@Millihex wait no not bismarck

Wilhelm!