They tried to steer aside as soon as they saw the iceberg, which caused a glancing collision along the side of the ship, which left a series of holes in 5 of its separate watertight compartments (it was designed to survive a breach of 4).
I don’t think the article is saying that… what they are saying is that the way WW1 happened was akin to someone saying “Ram the iceberg...” etc, i.e. for clearly stupid reasons.
That’s not what happened on the Titanic.
They tried to steer aside as soon as they saw the iceberg, which caused a glancing collision along the side of the ship, which left a series of holes in 5 of its separate watertight compartments (it was designed to survive a breach of 4).
I don’t think the article is saying that… what they are saying is that the way WW1 happened was akin to someone saying “Ram the iceberg...” etc, i.e. for clearly stupid reasons.
Then it’s a bad analogy, it makes to sense to intimidate icebergs, but other countries can be.