If there is a Third World War, historians will note that — like the First — it began with weak and unimaginative leadership and in the unlikeliest of places. No one could have known that an assassin’s bullets in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, would begin a monthslong march to a global war from which Europe has not (and never will) culturally recover. If we’re sliding into another global war, historians will write that the years-long march began in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 15, 2021.
