Know, it seems to me that time is, in principle, a relative concept, when we are joyful, when we are happy, when we its interesting, time seems to me, well, we really dont watch the clock, its at this moment that i really want to say , contrary to goethes words, a moment, dont stop, our gaze today will be clear, this is what, the fact is that it is on october 12 that the world day of vision, by the way, the most active and elastic muscles in the human body are the eye muscles, there are only six of them. So dont forget to do exercises for your eyes, so right now you can blink a little eight times in one direction to the other, well done, you repeat, and by the way, you can also do this with good music , lets wake up together, your gentle hands, warm hands, in the morning black coffee with cinnamon, so that the journey is easier and separation is less frequent, and all your favorite faces are nearby, and for us yours is only a lemon drop , happiness in the sky, for more light, and for m
To make real revolution elsewhere. A nightmare for the czar. But there is also that going on. I think one has to remember all this, the huge sort of rather like the map that we were showing earlier on. I think there was all this happening. An awful lot of stuff was happening so i doubt that any of the three could have done anything about it. Is just throwing out an idea. But in the early years if the family had handled willie right, or, an even bigger whatif, if he hadnt had that terrible breach birth and he was the brightest of those three and he hadnt fallen into the hands of i mean you could imagine a different outcome. But thats not the way it was. Hello. Ive recently completed, or read, history of world war i by john keegan. And he expressed a view i had not heard before. What he said was before austria issued its ultimatum which was very weak and crumbling even then, sent its ultimatum to serbia, he first contacted the kaiser as to whether the kaiser would support him if he invad
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Of i mean you could imagine a different outcome. But thats not the way it was. Hello. Ive recently completed, or read, history of world war i by john keegan. And he expressed a view i had not heard before. What he said was before austria issued its ultimatum which was very weak and crumbling even then, sent its ultimatum to serbia, he first contacted the kaiser as to whether the kaiser would support him if he invaded serbia. And the kaiser answered yes. And his view was that was the real spark that brought about world war i and, in essence, caused the allies later to blame germany for the beginnings of the war. I wonder if you have a view on that. Well, i knew john keegan actually just not because we shared a subject. And we talked about this and i think that was a very valuable way of looking at it, to tell you the truth. The only thing i would add to it is what i have been talking about today, which is if willie had been different, if the kaiser had been different, he might not have
Instead, he describes a series of decisions made by heads of state that had a domino effect. This is about 50 minutes. Professor Sean Mcmeekin did his ph. D. At uc berkeley and he talked at many universities before beginning at professor of history of russian and eurasian studies at bard college in new york. Among his recent boox are the russian origins of the First World War, july 1914, and the berlin baghdad express, the Ottoman Empire and germanys bid for world power. His research languages include russian, turkish, german, and french. His talk today is the war of 1914, an avoidable catastrophe. Thank you for that kind introduction. Well see if i can get the clicker to work before we get going. There we are. Its true, i did one book with the german bid for world power in the title. I did another book called the russian origins of the First World War. Some people have been a bit confused by this. I blame the russians in one book and the germans in the other. [laughter] now, for which