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sinistril:
This is all very confusing.
So Serbia attacked Austria, which caused Germany to invade France, but they had to go through Belgium and that made the Brits mad, so the Brits declared war on Germany but it took them awhile to get there, so France got owned in the meantime. Meanwhile the Russian Tsar's wife, who was German, was sleeping with a Siberian peasant, so he got mad and declared war on Germany. Italy thought this meant that Germany was going to lose so they invaded Austria-Hungary but they were pretty useless, only foreshadowing how useless the Ottoman Empire would be when they decided to fight for Germany because why not. The Canadians finally made it to Europe just in time for the Second Battle of Ypres, the Germans gassed them, then activated their submarines and started sinking American ships. America was pretty angry and Britain, who had been spying on the Americans, showed the Americans a conversation of the Germans talking to the Mexicans. America was like "How'd you get that info?" but Britain shrugged and said "They called the wrong number by accident". So the Americans believed the Brits and declared war on Germany but Russia banned Vodka before America could get there and the Russian peasants revolted and left the war. America finally made it to Europe and Germany is tired so they accept peace terms put forward by America and end the war but France and Britain didn't agree to those terms so they're like "no" and Germany's like "WTF" and America's like "WTF" while Britain and France divide up Germany. Italy meanwhile thinks they deserve a piece of the pie despite being useless and invent fascism to hopefully become less useless which leads to war 20 years later in which Italy is still useless.
Did I about sum this thread up?
This is probably the best brief history of WWI that I have seen, and I am say that as someone that has now spent 3+ years watching The Great War weekly episodes on YouTube.
