I don't believe it was inevitable. You could say the the same about many conflicts. People thought conflict between the USSR and the USA was inevitable but it wasn't.
Fine, I've discussed the factors involved and even made some suggestions as to how to perhaps delay, divert or mitigate it. They all involve PODs.
Are you going to sketch out how Europe threads this particular narrow passage? A scenario perhaps?
As I've said, if major changes in not one but all European powers have to happen to avoid it, these changes change the societies from OTL baseline, and therefore it is hardly reasonable to extrapolate what the world would be like today.
Several things strongly distinguish the situation between the Western allies and the Warsaw Pact and the years leading up to WWI. For one thing, war at some level was pretty ordinary. Plenty of political analysts and actual leaders would frequently state that war would be good for the nation.
Neither the liberal Westen bloc nor Soviet bloc had that belief widely in the wake of the devastation of WWII, and that was before factoring in the risk of nuclear Armageddon.
Indeed the notion that the war would be inevitable and that therefore it would be less utterly destructive than if it happened later was probably the worst destabilizing element in that balance of terror. But had either side harbored a desire for war for war's sake surely leadership would have pounced on numerous small incidents to launch it already.
The notion war was inevitable was founded in each sides perceptions of the other. But the dynamic was entirely different.
I don't think history changes under idle whims.