Agree 100% but get a lot of push back on your second claim. Indeed the UK could not stand that an uppity Germany was building a dreadnought. In school I think we are taught a Britain centric view of history. Which is why I don’t see the Boers as the enemy the British made them in the Boer War. The British also abandoned Israel leading up to and beyond 1948.
We allowed Britain’s Navy to choke off Germany, and not allow US ships to enter German ports, and expect the Germans to just sit back and take it, while we supplied Britain?
A true neutral would have told the Brits, to allow our ships to go to German ports, or else we won’t risk our ships and men to supply Britain. But we were never really “neutral” were we?