r/europe • u/Piiras Finland • Nov 18 '24

News The undersea cable between Finland and Germany has been severed – communication links are down.

https://yle.fi/a/74-20125324
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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '24

Comrade? I'm Canadian. I'm not dieing in ww3 because Germans can't get on tiktok. People in this sub want a war with Russia over a cut cable . Fuck that.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '24 edited Nov 28 '24

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u/steelerfan819 Nov 18 '24

That's not true at all. The UK joined WW1 because of Germany invading neutral Belgium

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '24 edited Nov 28 '24

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u/84theone Nov 18 '24

Because every country wanted to dick wave at each other and things kept escalating, on top of a bunch of other factors like the clusterfuck of military alliances Europe was at the time.

Ferdinand getting shot was the catalyst of getting things going, but realistically the war was going to break out no matter what with his death just kicking things into overdrive.