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[moonwise]

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

Not good.

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[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

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.

[arafel.livejournal.com]

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.