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Quote by: Simonius  That was just a handy excuse, an Austrian declaration of war on Serbia was most probably inevitable.
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Yes, because Germany realised that Russia and France were both rapidly catching up and on the verge of surpassing Germany/Austria-Hungary. Specifically due to increasing industrialization of Poland, whcih would give Russia the capability to fight the kind of stagnant trench war that was fought on the Western Front.