WW1 had no cause

[enchanted]

3 hours ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

@enchanted many didn't choose. They were conscripted.

True. Thanks everyone for the answers and helping me see this in another light. 

[Jodistrict]

This is the text of the “Soldier’s Declaration”, written in 1917 by Siegried Sassoon, who had distinguished himself for bravery in combat in World War I .

“I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the war is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it. I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers. I believe that this war, upon which I entered as a war of defence and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest. . . . I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Sassoon

[blackchair]

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