“I still believe had Britain, and subsequently America, stayed out of the fray in WWI, the world would have been much better off.”
There’s some well respected historians who share that view.
Russia has a historic connection with the people of the Balkans so they were going to come to their defense when Austro-Hungary attacked. Germany apparently had been secretly egging on Austro-Hungary.
France and Britain joined in because of alliances with Russia. Beware of entangling alliances.
It seemed back then that a Britain-Germany alliance would have made more sense, but Britain was suspicious of Germany’s rise.
But were the Germans all that much worse than Britain’s traditional enemy, France? Why the sudden love affair between Britain and France? I guess the two neighborhood bullies, couldn’t stand having a new bully on the block.