ArchDuke's and Armageddon

There is a lot in this article which repeats myths about the First World War on what will be tomorrow the 100th anniversary of the assasination of Arch Duke Ferdinand. But the First World War did destroy Europe and usher in the two worst kinds of Socialism, National and International. I tend to believe that the Germans were so hellbent on domination that war was inevitable but was that war inevitable? If the Agadir crisis of 1911 had triggered instead would the same stalemate have occurred? The period 1914-1945 was in some sense another 30 years war and it left Europe ravaged. I remember World War I veterans and their stories (my grandfather was one). But the living memory of it is gone now. I recommend to anyone who wants to get the flavor of the mood after the war the original "Saint" novels (not the Roger Moore T.V. show). In those books The Saint is always trying to stop a shadowy arms dealing villain from Central Europe from restarting war for the purpose of selling armaments. It was not industry or profit that caused the war, they just made it more terrible. It was the centrifugal forces nationalism. That nationalism was often "progressive" in character. Think Wilson and his 14 points and a nation for every people. The call the 20th Century the "short century" from June 28, 1911-to 1991 and the fall of the Soviet Union. It ended well but quite a brutal interval.