The war to end all wars

[Damarioman]

Regardless of whether you support war or not, you should always remember those who died to protect your right to support or condemn war.

I wasn't specifically referring to ww1 with this line.

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I'm not sure WWI is that important to Earth's history, though I'll give you humanity's.

the people in ww1 didn't die to protect any rights. they died for nothing in a totally pointless war. don't glorify it

Care to elaborate? My WWI history is a bit rusty but I can see where you'd draw this conclusion. Europe was itching to try out their new toys and found whatever excuse they could to have a big war. Turns out the toys sucked anyway, nobody likes WWI combat games.

The Great War started due to a domino effect.

Archduke Franz-Ferdinand of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was assassinated in Bosnia.

The Austrians believed that his assassins were given support by the Serbian Government.

The Austrians delivered an ultimatum to Serbia, asking that Austrian officials be allowed to investigate the matter. Serbia refused.

Russia mobilized against Austria in order to protect their Ally Serbia.

Germany mobilized against Russia and its ally France in order to protect Austria.

Britain issued an ultimatum to Germany and France, asking them to respect Belgian neutrality. France agreed, the Germans didn't respond.

Austria declared war on Serbia and Russia.

Russia declared war on Austria and Germany.

Germany declared war on Russia and France.

Germany enacted the Schlieffen Plan, which was to knock France out of the war by taking Paris by cutting through Belgium.

Britain and its Empire declared war on Germany for violating Belgian neutrality.

And so started the Great War.