What an awful take. What is this? WW2 wasn’t working anymore so now you’re trying to spin a tenuous WW1 narrative . Is that what’s going on? As a REALLY basic take: 4 of the 5 major combatants were multi-ethnic empires (2 w/in their borders, 2 w/ empires abroad). This is basic.https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1039985518828769280 …
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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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