Who Would You have Sided with in World War I?

[elite_hunter_sh3]

Central Powers simply because The Germans were always #1 when it came to war technology.

[STEED]

Originally Posted by elite_hunter_sh3

Central Powers simply because The Germans were always #1 when it came to war technology.

Really. :hmm:

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[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by STEED

Really. :hmm:

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Not to mention that Great Britian was the day's leader in battleship technology.

[Brag]

Both of my grandfathers were in the Russian Army. Soooo, the natural thing is the natural thing to do.

[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by August

What was so illegal about it?

The British Admiralty, on 2 November 1914, declared the entire North Sea as a war zone. This was against international maritime law. The British also cried foul when Germany retorted by declaring all of the waters around Great Britian a war zone. Political pressure, most notably the potential entrance of the United States into the war, forced Germany to back down. This was less than fair, but that is war.

[August]

Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

The British Admiralty, on 2 November 1914, declared the entire North Sea as a war zone. This was against international maritime law. The British also cried foul when Germany retorted by declaring all of the waters around Great Britian a war zone. Political pressure, most notably the potential entrance of the United States into the war, forced Germany to back down. This was less than fair, but that is war.

Interesting, thanks.

[Stealth Hunter]

To add to Takeda's statement, the British liner, Lusitania, was also carrying munitions at the time she was sunk off the coast of Ireland, which was a violation of the law. When Kptlt. Schweiger sank it, the Brits had the audacity to claim that he was decorated as a hero by the Kaiser, which he was NOT. Winsor McCay made the same outrageous claim for propaganda.

[bradclark1]

Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

The British Admiralty, on 2 November 1914, declared the entire North Sea as a war zone. This was against international maritime law. The British also cried foul when Germany retorted by declaring all of the waters around Great Britian a war zone. Political pressure, most notably the potential entrance of the United States into the war, forced Germany to back down. This was less than fair, but that is war.

The butchering of civilians in the low lands by the Germans wasn't fair either. I would be allied just for that reason.

[Kazuaki Shimazaki II]

I took the question as "If I were God, who will I have helped win", so I chose the Central Powers. My personal reason is Versailles. As treaties go, it is arguably WORSE than the Unequal Treaties on China. The apologists attempts to justify it using Brest-Litovsk and the Treaty the Germans might have sicced on the Allies if they won is asinine.

What really bugs me is not the Massive Reparations, nor the Territorial Losses, or even the Admission of Guilt crap. All that crap goes with losing, and countries tend to get over them (France paid off Germany's reparations after the Prussian-France War surprisingly fast). It is the Military provisions. I don't know why that part is so under-emphasized, when it is (as written), the harshest part. It has no time duration, no set way to pay it off ... etc.

Why don't they say "Well, this is what we're grabbing from you now, but we've got unlimited De Facto rights to get more at any time we please, simply because you don't have an Army left." I don't see a line on Brest-Litovsk that could compare with that clause of unlimited punishment (as written).

The sheer diktatness of that farce makes me utterly unsympathetic to the French when the Germans rolled over them in 1940 - they practically begged for it to happen.

[Yahoshua]

Better to judge a historical event with the facts in existing context before the event ocurred, than to look back and choose sides based on who won the most or who lost the least.