Crimea War

The modern butcher shop that was born from a bunch of keys

How could a dispute over who held the keys to a church in Jerusalem end in a continental bloodbath? Welcome to the Crimean War (1853–1856), the definitive example of the “butterfly effect” applied to geopolitics. What began as a sacristy squabble between Catholic and Orthodox monks ended with the world’s greatest powers engaged in a diplomatic elbowing …