Sleepwalking Toward Accidental Conflict

Vladimir Putin shakes hands with China's foreign policy chief Wang Yi during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, February 22, 2023. *Credit: Kremlin Pool Photo via AP*

Too many observers have lost sight of one of the key lessons of World War I. The Great War was triggered by the assassination of Austrian Ar

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