A chap gets shot in Sarejavo (the one I’m referring to was in 1918, there have been many since) and 20 million people lose their lives in the Great War.
My history text book listed the causes of World War I. The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand was list as on of five “”immediate causes of the war”.
There were also a list of underlying causes, one of which was Germany’s late emergency as a a nation state and its subsequent failure to attain an empire because Britain, France, Holland and Spain had pinched all the best bits of the world to colonise.
If the host had missed….
Death of history
Forces of history are really human forces. We do not tach history any more.
Australian not immune. QLd would have been a fascist state without he Oz fed… Xavier Herbert in Capricornia was right.