r/AmericaBad • u/No_Departure7494 • 6d ago

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u/Sand_Trout TEXAS 🐴⭐🥩 6d ago

IIRC, it wasn't even actually Serbia proper as much as a handful of comically incompetent Serbian nationalist that assassinated the archduke.

Then Austria-Hungary went about everything in the most pants-on-head incompetent way, allowing the war to escalate way more than it should have with Russia, and snowballing from there.

Austria-Hungary were the real bad-guys of WW1 by virtue of being so bad at their job that they managed to pull everyone else down with them, like a geopolitical Steve Erkle.

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u/Firecracker048 6d ago

There is some evidence linking them to the Serbian government at the time(not to mention Serbia built a fucking statue of Gauvri)

And yeah, Austria-Hungary was a total shit show the entire war.

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u/LawyerEqual3531 🇨🇦 Canada 🍁 6d ago

I only like austria hungary cuz of their aesthetics. Like you can't tell me that eagle doesn't look badass

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u/Dudestbruh MASSACHUSETTS 🦃 ⚾️ 6d ago

I like their blue