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Episode 10.53 The Balkans. Last time we walked through everything we already knew about the

deep background of World War One from stuff we've already talked about in the podcast.

This week we are going to combine that old information with a bunch of new information regarding

the infamously fratious and complicated Balkan peninsula and why a crisis there could possibly

trigger a great power war that would consume the entire world.

The big picture setting for all of this is the Eastern question. And the Eastern question

is what is going to happen now that the Ottoman Empire is clearly in collapse. Imperial

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