Again, you miss the obvious: The Germans invaded France and Belgium and then conducted brutal atrocities against French and Belgian civilians. Not content to wage war at sea using submarines, they went ahead to unrestricted submarine warfare and began killing civilians at sea - including American citizens.
The Germans also initiated the use of flamethrowers, poison gas and bombing civilian cities from the air - as well as shelling Paris using long range artillery.
In short, the Germans were atrocity-committing war criminals sustaining an aggressive war. They earned the defeat they got and if we'd had any foresight at all, should have maintained a strong military presence in Germany for several generations more and strongly enforced the provisions of the Versailles Treaty to restrict arms development and production.
No, you do. You're too blinded by anti-German hate to see clearly.
All the European Great Powers were eager for a brief war to settle some scores.
* Austria-Hungary wanted to put the Balkans in their place.
* As did the Ottoman Turks.
* France wanted to avenge their defeat in the Franco-Prussian War (which France started), and regain Alsace and Lorraine.
* Britain was looking for an excuse to destroy the growing German navy and thus secure Britain's "rule" over the seas.
* Germany dreamed of overseas colonies.
* As did Italy.
Yet of all the participants, Germany and Russia were least eager for war. Germany was especially wary of a two-front war. The Kaiser and the Tsar famously exchanged telegrams in the weeks before the war, begging the other to back off so they wouldn't have to go to war.
France and Austria-Hungary were most eager for war.