Should England have stayed out of WW1? A very good discussion, english, of course :)

[THEBERBSTER]

The answer to your question is absolutely no.

There are a number of reasons why.

The Kaiser had imperial ambitions that threatened the British Empire at the time especially India which was England’s jewel in the crown.

The Kaiser was related through Queen Victoria to England’s royalty and resented what we had and what he did not have.

He also had total control of the armed forces and the people as in his position as ‘the Kaiser’ he was looked on as a God, a chosen person.

His orders were carried out without question.

Germany started building up its navy in the early 1900’s by building its might in the Dreadnaught’s as England at the time had the most powerful navy in the world.

If we had not supported the French, the German armies would have over-run Europe and with France falling as it would have done along with Belgium the Netherlands etc, England would then stand totally alone with its territories now wide open for invasion.

So if we had not gone to war with Germany with French support in 1914 then we would undoubtedly been forced into war with a stronger Germany at a later date.

There was only one option at the time, sooner rather than later.

Peter