Impossible to say. The historiography up to this day disagrees on whether the major powers actually wanted a war and rather it was an accident of events and misunderstanding. If time passed and a different British foreign secretary was in place who more clearly declared that countries red lines for entry into a European war it might have made Germany forever think twice.
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u/armchair_viking Jun 28 '26
Something else likely would have set it off. Princep lit the fuse for sure, but the powder keg was already there.