[Captain Walker]

After the Treaty of Versailles, I personally feel that Europe dropped the ball and failed to make Germany comply with the Treaty. All Germany did was whine about how harsh the Treaty was, but they signed that Treaty.

That treaty led directly to round two, as many on the Allied side warned it would; the British and French governments simply found a naïf in the White House who would push for reparations to their two countries.

[Menes]

Yes, exactly. Especially the war guilt clause is highly dubious, and strangely, when negotiations for peace were offered in December 1916 by the governments in Berlin and Vienna, the offer was roundly rejected by the Entente governments.

The Entente war aim was to eliminate the „new“ power in the heart of Europe. Still, the British and French documents pertaining to the outbreak of WW I are still sealed in the archives of London and Paris…that is, if they have never deliberately been disposed of. That might have happened or not. Nobody knows for now.