Ever hear of Franz Ferdinand?
“I don’t listen to that hipster shit.”
I can totally see this being some mumble rapper or some retro southern folk band.
This ignorance of history is why we’re destined for a repeat lmao
Oh wait…
Listen I get it but please point me to the last orange painted person to be put in the highest position of power ruling over the worlds largest and most technically advanced military.
More specifically, the sandwich that he stopped to grab, in public, after having just survived MULTIPLE failed assasination attempts in a parade!
Honestly, let’s take away the politics. Let’s take away the original reasons for the assasination attempts. Let’s take away the nationality, and culture.
The fact that you sat in an open top car during a parade, witnessed MULTIPLE assasination attempts fail as you drove through the public, SURVIVED UNHARMED, and your first thought was “I’m gonna get a sandwich”? Yeah, Franz deserved what he got.
It was the assassin that suposedly was getting the sandwich, but it’s a made up story.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gavrilo-princips-sandwich-79480741/
Franz Ferdinand was an excuse to start ww1, not the cause. The declining monarchies in Germany and other countries were looking for any excuse at that time to flex their remaining muscle in the face of a world which increasingly didn’t need them.
It was the last song of monarchist expansion.
But yes, killing Franz Ferdinand was the catalyst that gave them the excuse they needed. If it hadn’t been that though, it would have been something else shortly after they would have seized on.
