[jfengel]

I'm envisioning an editorial written in early 1914 saying "Hey, I really hope nothing happens to the Austrian heir in Sarajevo, because everybody is tied into that and it would really blow up into a Europe-wide crisis."

I want to pair it with a scholarly article written in 2125 asking, "Why the heck did they throw away the entire world order because of a frozen-over, barely-inhabited island?"