It makes sense when you realize that the US has a similar scope and a larger number of states in it than Europe did at the time.

Analogies between the United States and specific states in Europe often done work as well as US <-> Europe do.

Franz Ferdinand's assassination could, from the perspective of the Austro-Hungarian empire (a surprisingly liberal center of intellectual cosmopolitanism) be viewed as a match lighting a "civil war" that only later become international.

Correct, nobody around me, including me, knows who he is.

Among young people (especially on TikTok, I’m told, not on that platform though) I would say he’s more well known that a figure like Stephen Colbert. Just trying to put this into perspective for those who aren’t familiar. Nobody can know every publix figure, especially these days.

I've only learned about this man's existence because I've returned to watching South Park when I've heard they are targeting Trump and his politics.

The people who run the U.S. government and many many of their supporters absolutely know who he is and this will greatly add to their feelings of grievance and persecution.

He's probably drawing a comparison to a civil war, not WW3.

Honestly it's even funnier to imagine a civil war starting over Charlie Kirk. If it's used by the Trump admin as a pretext maybe.

That’s not funny at all.

The biggest risk is that the current US admin uses this event as a prop to justify increasingly fascistic policies. In fact Stephen Miller has already signaled that at least he probably has this in mind. America gone full fascist won't immediately be an international problem but it eventually may be.

The world goes where US goes