A Wrong Turn Into World War I

One wrong turn literally destroyed the entire world order. In 1914, empires with modern

tech were desperate to fight, but they were using ancient tactics. It all snapped when

Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s driver got lost right in front of an assassin. Boom,

domino effect. Germany tried to speedrun France by invading neutral Belgium,

but got stopped cold. Soldiers marched in bright red pants against machine

guns, which went exactly as poorly as you’d think. The result was the

nightmare of trench warfare, where millions lived in mud and rats, dying by the thousands

just to gain a few useless inches of ground.