World War I did not begin in 1914 with a single assassination. Decades of alliance politics, fear, and structural change had already destabilized Europe.

We live forward, but we judge backward. In doing so, we flatten time, overvalue hindsight, and forget the limits of information that shaped historical decisions.

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