AHC: No WWI, with a twist

It's simple enough; just have the Habsburgs behave reasonably. If you get all but one demand met without condition or negotiation, then you should quit while you're ahead…
When the Serbians failed to accept the whole note, the Council of Europe should have mobilized in support of Austria. That’s the way it would have been done in 1848.
 
Except that Vesnić, Spalaiković, and Lesanin all stated that the Serbian government had warned the Hapsburgs of an impending attempt on Franz Ferdinand's life,

No such warning was ever given.
and Descos reported to his government that Dimitrijević's faction at court, who had previously carried out the assassination of the Serbian King & Queen just a few years ago remember, was behind the plot,

That is quite true, that many theories later placed Apis at the center of the plot. But the fact remains, if he indeed was, the assassins themselves didn’t know it.

mean, I'm only scrapping the tip of the iceberg here, there's a whole cornucopia of established material that pretty solidly points to some level of involvement in the assassination on the part of elements within the Serbian government…

The evidence is certain that some kids went to Belgrade and got pistols from the Serbian army and then some guy named Ciganovic used Serbian border guards and agencies to get them back to Sarajevo. Then, that this Cignanovic was hussled off to the USA, while Tankosic died during the retreat, (ie, Ciganovic was sent to a place where he could not be captured, while the Serbians risked Tankosic's capture).
After that, it's mostly conjecture.

well, they're just a bunch of kids doing normal teen stuff - you know, assassinating a world leader or two, no big deal."

The same conviction stands behind the JFK assassination, because anything that so deeply effected the mass consciousness must have some deeper meaning. But does it? Princip required no great conspiracy in order to pull the trigger on his pistol. All he needed was a pistol and an opportunity.
 
The same conviction stands behind the JFK assassination, because anything that so deeply effected the mass consciousness must have some deeper meaning. But does it? Princip required no great conspiracy in order to pull the trigger on his pistol. All he needed was a pistol and an opportunity.[/QUOTE]

Ah, well, but the links are a bit firmer than the Kennedy-conspiracy-theories, plus, even the speculative bits actually make sense.

I am not implying that the assassination of FF was planned in the very highest circles of the Serbian government. But the folks who helped Princip knew what they did.
 
When the Serbians failed to accept the whole note, the Council of Europe should have mobilized in support of Austria. That’s the way it would have been done in 1848.

The key word there being 1848. The European situation in 1848 is drastically different from 1914.
 
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