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[–] valkyre09@lemmy.world 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)

WW1 - they hit some dude in a car and everybody was pissed.

WW2 - everybody was sick of paying for WW1

Easy!

[–] TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Idk if that's really why WWII started...

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There was more to WW1 starting than Franz Ferdinand getting shot, too. They are sarcastically skewering people's simplistic understanding of the causes of those two conflicts.

[–] TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I guess so. I think it was mostly Germany tired of paying for WWI tho lol