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 nostr:npub1hpcdfjpxrawnmu6ryh36ce7xu4qd54pu6xca394yhvmyzlery0tqvghjn3 1914 was a powder keg ignited by a botched and really ‘insignificant’ assassination of Franz Ferdinand that allowed certain groups to start a war that wasn’t really anything to do with his death, I agree that we are seeing a repeat of those times again, but compressed into a much shorter time period and with the possibility of far greater loss of life given the advance in actual weapons of mass destruction, not Blair’s imagined ones. Maybe a cull of us will suit billionaires