Why did WW1 start?
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The alliances between European nations shifted around a lot over the decade or so before WWI. After all the shifts, they were polarised into two groups, so that war between any opposing pair woyld draw in all the others.
Germany figured it couldn’t survive if it had to fight Russia in the East and France in the West at the same time; it figured that Russia would take about two weeks to mobilise so it was necessary to dominate France within that time. They had an incredibly detailed plan for the logistics of doing that ready to roll, if war should break out.
In that context, friction in the right spot was all it would take. There was plenty of friction to be found in the Slavic region and – whoompf.
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