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[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There was more to WW1 starting than Franz Ferdinand getting shot, too. They are sarcastically skewering people's simplistic understanding of the causes of those two conflicts.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I guess so. I think it was mostly Germany tired of paying for WWI tho lol