The Archduke's Visit to Serievo

i consider war to be lunacy. Russia had backed the serbian government's right to the lands, although franz ferdinand has sometimes been portrayed as a war monger eager to establish austro hungarian premacy in europe. He was more often than not, pragmatic and a conservative man who had a shrewd understanding of the tenuous position of countries on the continent. Some historians have argued that the archduke agreed to visit Serbia in order to satisfy his need for adolation. But this seems a little unlikely, given how disdainful he was of appeals to public sympathy for his private life. None the less, it's harder to understand why he accepted the invitation