This is actually really frustrating to read. There is a lot of ambiguity in the cause of WW1: what happened? Who was to blame? But one thing that it 100% WASN’T: a war of ethno-nationalisms. That wouldn’t crack the top 10 of causes. It’s irrelevant to what happened in 1914.
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There WAS “nationalism” or “national chauvinism”, that is in there. But they’re trying to make this like there were 2 sides of tiki torch marchers in khakis charging at one other in an autistic fight to death over whose ethnicity is superior. This was not at all what WW1 was abt.
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I could go off about this ALL day because it’s my favorite war to study, so I know a fair amount (for a layman anyway) about it. But I’ll end w/ this: where did the war kick off? The Balkans. Where, unlike say France at the time, a hodgepodge of ethnic groups live close together.
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A collection of smaller ethnic groups, a beautiful tapestry of multiculturalism, caught between Austria, Russia, and the Ottomans (all multiethnic as well). None w/ their own clearly defined homelands (at the time). And they fought each other. And eventually sparked WW1.
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In 1916, three of the them had multi-ethnics within borders: Ottoman Empire, Russian Empire, Austria-Hungary
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The UK and France were certainly multi-ethnic empires at the time.
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Considering how the victors of WW1 pushed heavily for ethnic nations when carving up the old empires, I'm glad the Atlantic is finally admitting the wrong side won WW1. The Kaiser, Emperor-King, and Sultan did nothing wrong!
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I agree, this is pretty infuriating. I've accepted that World War II is the creation myth of modern liberal democracy, but WWI has nothing to do with their narrative and it hurts to see the tentacles start to constrict around it.
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This is fucking my day up. I'm watching reality get rewritten, not just discovering the truth after the fact, and there's nothing I can do about it.
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How long did it take them to even find the one non jewish guy who was advocating for retarded cultureless anatchy
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