I’m about to steal it and find some key person that’s important form world peace and clackalack all of us into world war 3.
De ting go SKYAT - PAP-PAP-PAP - and a DOOF-DOOF-PAP.
Food for Thought:
The Black Hand actually achieved their goals with the assassination. They were arguably the only responsible party to benefit from the war.
They were a Serbian nationalist group hoping to start a war that would result in the creation of a “Greater Serbia,” a state where Serbia dominated the regions around them.
After the Austro-Hungarian Empire was dissolved, Yugoslavia was created, led by a royal Serbian house, capital in, you guessed it, Serbia, dominating the surrounding regions.
The moral of the story is assassinate more members of the monarchy, it will be fine in the end, probably.
You know after two world wars, a cold war, a civil war and a little light genocide… So 50/50?
It also indirectly started ww2 via the treaty of Versailles.
Leave a space for what starts ww3
The Nazis started WW2, the Versailles treaty blame is historical cope. Many nations have had more onerous reparations after losing a war than Germany did.
The Great Depression was a far bigger factor in the economic struggles of the Weimar Republic, so, honestly, if you want to blame indirect historical circumstances instead of the Nazis it’s America’s fault.
What many nations do doesn’t matter, political movements are made powerful by feelings and there are plenty of primary sources talking about the inevitability of another war largely because of the treaty of Versailles and how the Germans felt about it. The great depression was another factor, certainly, but the German people didn’t consult a chart to see how they ranked in reparation costs before deciding to go Nazi. It was still an unfathomable large number for the time that took them over 90 years to pay. It also had a bunch of other restrictions beyond monetary compensation, like harsh limits on their military. People were angry. German people suffering because of the actions of the Kaiser was a huge sore spot and we musnt ignore it.
And the nazis watched what we were doing and wanted to get in on that.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/30/how-american-racism-influenced-hitler
You admit it yourself, the terms of the Treaty didn’t matter. The Treaty did not really matter, the Treaty was just an emblem of their loss.
What mattered was the resentment of losing a war they thought they should have won, sharing a national delusion that it was the fault of anything but gleefully fighting a war against most of the neighbors, and the only way to prevent that would have been to eradicate them as a nation, as some French and British leaders wished, but America refused and counselled against.
You should post this to the ForgottenWeapons community
Technically, that weapon is the opposite of forgotten. Being in a museum and all.
Blast from the past.
