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Originally Posted by sperbonzo
All wars are bad, but WWI had to be the most insanely brutal war ever fought for absolutely no reason, only mis-communication and the bruised egos of some in-bred nobility, and with no benefit to the winners. Most hideously sad war of all time, IMHO.
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Moreover were it not for that pointless war, Hitler and Stalin would have lived out their lives respectively as a mediocre painter of postcards and as a bank robber.
And in all likelihood another 60 million plus people wouldn't perish prematurely roughly 25 years later.
WWI had a bigger impact on subsequent western history than any other event since the fall of Rome.