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Secret military pacts forcefully triggered a global conflict
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It turns out that making secret promises to defend your friends no matter what is a terrible geopolitical strategy. In the early 20th century, Europe was a tangled web of confidential alliances, meaning that when one archduke was assassinated, a localized dispute instantly dragged completely uninvolved empires into a catastrophic global meat grinder.
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