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Pre-World War I European Military Power and Alliance Escalator

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Germany enters Speaker Walken's World War I analogy as the treaty-bound empire that declares war on Russia after Russian mobilization in support of Serbia. Austria-Hungary's response to Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassination by Serbian nationalists forces Russia's hand, pulling Germany into the fray. France follows by declaring war on Germany, turning a regional spark into global catastrophe. Walken deploys this chain to assert command in the Oval Office crisis, stressing that one leader must take charge amid alliance dominoes.

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