AUDIO: What event triggered World War I?

As they say, there’s nothing new under the sun: is the world stage being set for a seminal politician execution to mirror that of 1914’s and plunge the world into a comparable conflict?

As they also say, The Simpsons haven’t been wrong yet…

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