What's Like a Powder Keg in World War I?

The leadership of every country involved had personal financial stakes in the mass sale of weapons and armaments. The people who were like bribing public officials that we know about in this time were the ones who weren't as good as Zaharov because they got caught. And it was all basically to sell a shitload of guns to profit these arms manufacturers and the people that they bribed in government. I mean, some of it was known at the time, particularly a lot of socialist politicians at the time were like, the arms industry owns all of our governments and are clearly lurching us towards a horrible war. But nobody did anything about it. So that doesn't sound like anything familiar