What were the reasons that Bismarck expected "some damned foolishness in the Balkans" to trigger a catastrophe in Europe which we now know in hindsight as WW1?

by ShelteredTortoise
Darth_Acheron

Not to discourage any further and more elaborate answers, but this question has atleast been answered in part in a previous thread , by u/Aleksx000

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/8ax9vl/otto_von_bismarck_famously_anticipated_that_the/