History is replete with instances where political actions, intended to strengthen or resolve conflicts, instead led to unforeseen and often disastrous outcomes. Mikhail Gorbachev’s policies of Glasnost and Perestroika, designed to rejuvenate the Soviet Union, paradoxically set in motion its collapse in 1991. Similarly, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914, a single act […]
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