World War One was a tragedy. It was a war that caused millions of deaths and changed the world forever.

It was also an insane catfight.

I don’t mean like, the fighting in the trenches and all. I give my highest respects to all the soldiers who fought during WWI.

‘Cause I’m talking about the governments.

Most of the countries really only entered the war because their friends were in it. It’s the perfect example of “If your friends all jumped off a bridge, would you?”. It turns out that for most of these countries, the answer is hell yeah. I still think this Arthur video sums up pretty much what was going on that made WWI happen. A simple case of insane chaos.

But I know I can’t just hand in a clip from Arthur from 2003 as my assignment (as much as I would like to). So I have theorized that WWI began because the strong sense of nationalism coming from multiple countries caused alliances to weaken. This means, pretty much, that everyone thought they were better than their neighbours, or deserved more, or thought things were becoming unfair. This made me relate them to children because kids tend to be so immature that they think the world needs to be 100% fair.

Well, at least, that’s my opinion. To support that, here are some real actual diary entries that I totally didn’t make up.

Originally, I was going to make a bunch of diary entries for each country, but after finishing the first batch of entries, I realized that I probably only had enough time to make one more batch (writing them all out and pasting them on sheet things took about 2 and a half hours per batch). I decided to start with

I decided to start with Austria-Hungary, because I feel like their animosity towards other countries was very spread and affected nearly every other country. They were pissed at everyone and their government was falling to pieces, and yet they were still making awful decisions (honestly me). They sent Franz Feridnand to Serbia even though EVERYONE KNEW it was an awful idea. They also knew they shouldn’t start anything because they didn’t want Russia coming after them. So at first, they just tried to ignore Serbia.

Meanwhile, Serbia was being moody. I gave Serbia a different font from the rest of the countries because I kind of felt like they were the emo kid. Like, going around talking about how nobody understands them and all that. They were pretty new as a country, and were mad that nobody was taking them seriously (kinda like North Korea is today). They actually ended up being the country that started all this mess, though. Franz Ferdiand got shot in Serbia. But would the war had happened otherwise? Probably. Serbia was just the moody emo kid who put the bullet in the gun (and forget to click the safety).

The issue may have stayed in the Balkans, like everything else that had happened in the Balkans had, but Russia and Serbia were actually pretty good friends. If Russia hadn’t have cared enough to get involved, then the war might not have happened. Oh, and Russia was bitter towards Germany, who was friends with Austria-Hungary, so there was also that motive.

Then, because Germany thinks they’re better than everyone, they have to get themselves involved. There’s not a whole lot to say about them. They were acting all high and mighty, which made a lot of people not like them. Germany honestly needed to calm down for like, the first half of the 20th century.

England and France got involved because, as I said before, EVERYBODY HATES GERMANY.

And then Canada joins in because “When Britian is at war, Canada is at war.” – Sir Wilfred Laurier

And Italy is CONFUSED. Kinda like me at this point tbh.

THEN ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE. Once Franz Ferdinand gets shot, and Serbia gets invaded, everyone needs to stick their nosey little fingers in it. Everyone was too proud and protected their friends when they shouldn’t have, so everything goes to crap.

War is dirty, messy, and bad. I blame nationalism for most of this. If everyone wasn’t so damn proud, maybe stuff like this wouldn’t happen. I think it shows in history that too much pride can be dangerous, and that’s what happened with WWI, WWII, and a whole lot of other wars that I don’t know about because Canada doesn’t do much war.  Pretty much my thesis on all war is that pride is the killer.

I’m looking at you, America.