That suggests they should have actually allied with Germany. There was enmity there from the time Disraeli had to put Bismarck in his place, and the German “state socialism” of that era was the natural foe of English common law.
So what was done to the people in German South West Africa and German East Africa was simply not as bad as the Belgian Congo due to numbers?
I just don’t buy that Germany was a threat to the British Empire.
In hindsight, Britain should have “Brexited” from the Continent, and focused on their Empire.