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The Origins of The Great War 1914-18

~ Conclusion ~

Fiat Justitia  (“Let Justice be Done”).

Subsequent to the Great War and World War II remains unfinished issues, which have been festering for centuries. Questions include seizure of the Serbian homeland, aggressive depopulation, loss of their regional power, and dissolution of their political entity. These will continue being points of contention and profound animosity. As it has indeed, done so for centuries. Unless there is, a return of the territories (status quo ante bellum) to their rightful owners animosity will assuredly continue. The Serbs reclaimed some of their territories in 1912, but without achieving self-determination, free from Austro-Hungarian rule. In an act of desperation, the naïve assassin (Gavrilo Princip), who murdered Ferdinand in 1914 – for all intents and purposes – was hoping to liberate fellow Serbs from a morass of hopelessness and wretchedness. In principle, an expression of a people, hoping to free their homeland from subjugation by a foreign power.

International intervention, to resolve the vast divergence, towards peace – between the various factions – has been a dismal failure. So negotiations will undoubtedly continue to fail. Unless negotiations, towards agreements and policies based upon the actual problems, rather than systems representing self-serving interests, include genuine respect for the Serbs and their culture, according to the fundamental principles of justice. In the same manner, the tensions and complexities of contemporary Serbian society, cannot be understood, omitting centuries of injustices that emanated from that fateful Turkish conquest at The Battle of Kosovo in 1389.

Effective intervention requires an unbiased approach to understanding inseparableness of relative historical importance. The constant evolving revision with theoretical and practical concerns. Particularly in respect to territorial sovereignty, politico-economic, socio-cultural, and religious factors. Without these factors, all future negotiations for peace in the region will be foredoomed. Past injustices, unless resolved, will naturally perpetuate raw fodder for further animosity and hostilities; a phenomenon not unique to Serbia alone. Serbia’s sole option is to assert authoritarian claims and rightful ownership of historically verifiable seized territories. Notably, Serbia (Σέρβια, “land of the Serbs”) by foreign powers centuries earlier, dating back to the period of the Byzantine Empire (330–1453). Well, intentioned Interventionists efforts for peace, will be ineffective in letting justice be done. Without addressing the points of contention – the residues – that accumulated from the origin of the Great War, and World War II.

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