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I want to welcome everyone back to the Pekiniano show.

We are returning with Thomas 777 and we are picking up again on the World War I series.

So Thomas, where are we going today?

I continue to talk a little bit about causes

and kind of the dominant schools of thought.

I'm what led to, you know, the advent of actual hostilities.

Like there's a few different thoughts on that.

You know, and I'll, first let me pick up and frame our discussion, you know,

in context, um context topically it I think where we left off previously was quite, the close of July 1914, you know, and it's my position, which I think is in

arguable even people who are, even people who are you know basically hostile to the German perspective like

AGP Taylor he's a heterodox historian but he's uncompizing hostile to, you know, the German case as it were.

You know, even he acknowledges that it was the Russian general mobilization order

That was not obvious that was not the sole proximate cause but is the essential immediate cause of the onset of hostilities.

It was July 28, 1914.

That was when the Russian chief of staff, Janice Gevich, he advised the czar, you know,

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