France never should have allied with Russia, should have let the Kaiser get it. France and England just didn’t like having a new kid on the block.
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.