WI: No WWI (or WWII)?

Heres how you prevent it. The Serbian assassin who killed ferdinan gun misfire:D that easy

That takes care of OTL's war, but not the real tendency towards war. It's possible that no general European war would ensue until the '50s or so by which time the ship would have sailed. It just isn't likely.

Unless you remove the causative factors of the war, you're going to have to assume that a half-dozen assassins' bullets miss and a dozen politicians avoid dangerous miscalculations, that ships don't run aground and riots aren't blown out of proportion, and so on. Essentially, everything has to go right. It can. But probability-wise you get better results with a fundamental alteration of the circumstances.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. For every man striking at the root of evil, there are a hundred cutting at its branches. You get the idea.
 
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