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  • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    Germans were a victim of WW1.

    That’s … an interesting way to describe the power which practically controlled Ottoman empire’s state apparatus so that it wouldn’t crumble through the years which cleansed Asia Minor and Western Armenia of civilized presence by murdering and breaking people constituting that presence in every way possible.

    Which was also allied to Austria-Hungary which started the war in the first place, and also committed plenty of war crimes in Serbia and Western Ukraine.

    Obviously Germans themselves did plenty of that too.

    It’s just that the war wasn’t on German territory mostly.

    • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Which was also allied to Austria-Hungary which started the war in the first place

      Last time I checked it was Serbia that started the war.

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        1 year ago

        Serbia agreed to almost every point of the AH ultimatum regarding the investigation of FF’s murder. The one they rejected was about Serbian police working under AH supervision or something like that. Something no nation would accept, both extremely humiliating and dangerous.

        Anyway, rejecting an ultimatum doesn’t give you right to invade. It may be polite and civilized to give ultimatums in general, as compared to outright invasion without warning, but see the previous sentence.