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moonwise ([personal profile] moonwise) wrote2006-07-13 02:21 pm

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The events currently transpiring in the Middle East have got me very, very worried. I keep thinking about how WWI got started.

Not good.

[identity profile] dialogue.livejournal.com 2006-07-13 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I'm feeling that too. On the one hand, I'm thinking...what could be worth this? But on the other hand, I'm looking at it from a considerable distance.

Everything's...so tight on edge right now, in the world. It's really scary.

[identity profile] fadingembers.livejournal.com 2006-07-13 06:49 pm (UTC)(link)
What are you talking about? This is just an all-out war between two very small countries with many worldwide alliances watching on.

...oh, shit.

[identity profile] arafel.livejournal.com 2006-07-13 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
From the Wiki, and everything you read on the wiki is true:

On June 28, 1914, Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austrian throne, in Sarajevo. Princip was a member of Young Bosnia, a group whose aims included the unification of the South Slavs and independence from Austria (see also: the Black Hand). The assassination in Sarajevo set into motion a series of fast-moving events that escalated into a full-scale war. However, the reasons behind the conflict are multiple and complex. Historians and political scientists have grappled with this question for nearly a century without reaching a consensus.


I'm not at all nervous, nope.