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Austria was already looking for a war. They didn't have to take the harsh line they did. Princip was an excuse. If he had failed they would have found another one.
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Funny enough Austria-Hungary cost them the war, as Germany had to constantly pull men off of lines to bail them out of crap that the German staff told them not to do, but they decided to do.
They got their asses handed to them by a half ready Russian force, with a government half ready to topple over. The fact that Slavs abandoned the Austrian side and joined the Russians, as well as other major ethnic tensions amongst the army, which reflected the ethnic tensions in the country.