A good friend of mine sent me this graphic earlier this week. The World Wars fascinate me—to be fair, most history does, and yes, that even includes the obligatory guy thinking of the Roman Empire—and I can see on my bookshelf as I type this post up my books on naval warships from World War I and a history of the Great War itself. But the graphic comes from the Onion and satirises the Great War with a few choice bits relevant over 100 years later.
World War I is the what happens when you leave the default settings on and fail to make changes to your account after you set it up. Because someone declared war on someone else, another someone had to declare war on that person, and that person had to be declared war upon by another person, and so on and so forth until millions were dead.
Credit for the piece goes to the Onion’s graphics staff.
