This is a photograph that neatly helps to explain why the First World War was the abject trash fire it became. (Tsar Nicholas II on the left, King George V on the right) 
Millions of people died horrifying deaths because one family had some drama and one chauffeur reversed at a very inconvenient time.
World War One:
England, Germany, France, Russia, Austria-Hungary: we are friends and advanced nations, we do not want to go to war, the Schlieffen Plan is just for funsies
Gavrilo Princip: :: throws bomb ::
England, Germany, France, Russia, Austria-Hungary: well fuck
England, Germany, France, Russia, Austria-Hungary: we are friends and advanced nations, we do not want to go to war, the Schlieffen Plan is just for funsies
Gavrilo Princip: :: throws bomb ::
England, Germany, France, Russia, Austria-Hungary: well fuck
The family resemblance even caused wacky sitcom happenings, before uh the family ties also helped to cause the continent to descend into hell.
Seriously, thousands of men choked to death on chlorine gas at the Second Battle of Ypres because of intrafamily strife, one bad chauffeur, and a cultural understanding that war would be awesome and cool
“1917” was a great movie I’ll never watch again because it was basically a documentary as World War One was unbridled hell
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