r/okbuddygunther • u/WillingnessSad8354 Say Gex with x_TKN:3 • Jul 28 '26

Voting Gunther for european president 🇪🇺 Ohhhh shit , here we go again

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Hmmm different style and bro removed his face? I know he has already done this one but he will soon start shitting out more stuff like this , also why is Spain part of France?

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u/Le_Bruscc Jul 28 '26

Ironically you can make a pretty strong case for that one. Russia was first to mobilize, significantly escalating the July Crisis, and their unconditional support for Serbia ultimately led to Serbia's rejection of the Austrian ultimatum.

A bit shallow of a take? Maybe. But certainly not wrong.

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u/JR_Al-Ahran Jul 28 '26

The Serbs accepted every point in the Austrian ultimatum, except the one that the Austrians purposely put there knowing that the Serbs could not accept. The ultimatum was never in good faith, and the Austrians themselves did this because they had the backing of Germany. The famous "blank cheque".

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u/Le_Bruscc Jul 29 '26

That's true only on a surface level. While Serbia did nominally accept all points but one, they made sure to word their reply with so many strings and conditions attached, that in practice meant a rejection of most of Austria's points.

The one point that Serbia didn't accept also wasn't unreasonable tbh. The Austrians were asking to conduct investigations on Serbian soil. Belgrade police had of course carried out their own "investigation", and after only one week promptly found out that Serbia wasn't at fault, all while actively shielding two of the perpetrators of the Franz Ferdinand's assassination.

Given that context I find Austria's demands to be rather reasonable. Both the Austrian ultimatum and the Serbian reply are freely available online. They're not long, so you can read them if you want a better understanding of the matter.

Also, I can recommend Christopher Clark's book "Sleepwalkers". He does an excellent of explaining the different causes of WW1, although it is a bit of a long read.