//think how many wars such as the 30 Years and the Peninsular War could have been solved by having Eurovision, never mind WW1 //
The Peninsular war was started by..... France and Spain invading and occupying Portugal, until the frogs turned on Spain. It took the Brits to sort em out , liberating Portugal and in turn Spain from the Napoleonic forces. Of course led by Arthur Wellesley.....1st Duke Of Wellington.
The 30 years War was a war in central Europe between Protestant and Roman Catholic factions but developed into a conflict between the French and Habsburg factions. Catholic France and Protestant Habsburg.... Austria.
The trigger for the WW1 was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, by Yugoslav nationalist Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. This set off a diplomatic crisis when Austria-Hungary delivered an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia, and entangled international alliances formed over the previous decades were invoked.
Similar to the entangled treaties we have in place now. And as we speak the barbed wire goes up in Hungary and the old enmities in the Balkans surface, whilst they all persuade us to become Remainians, and eventually be sucked into their feuds but this time pay for it up front.