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The Last Time Globalization Collapsed: Parallels to Today

"don't know where you dug that up, but Russia was the first country to mobilize its troops in WW1 and that's what started the war."

This popular version is "nice" but it was not the real reason for the war.

The main driving forces responsible for the WW1 were England, France and the USA.

The reason was quite simple: both Germany and Russia were growing very fast threatening to vital geopolitical interests of England, France and the USA.

British diplomacy was very skillful in provoking a major war between Germany and Russia using paramount stupidity of Russian Czar Nikolas II.

Even after declaring a the war against Russia, German troops did not move an inch. German kaiser repeatedly offered peace to Russia but Russian Czar initiated the confrontation. For this, the czar and his entire family and most of his relatives were slaughtered.

Following the WW1, Germany, as European power, has perished. But the new monsters hostile to England, France and the USA has appeared: Bolshevik Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. This followed by the WW2.

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The situation prior to the WW1 reminds me the present situation with the emergence of China and Russia.