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How come GB wasn't aware about those other countries e.g. the USA to pose a military threat and aggression towards GB interests??? How come GB whole history interpretation gets focused entirely on Prussia despite Prussia not threatening anyone militarily in Europe or England’s
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While the USA was seen as a threat to British interests, it was never seen as a direct threat to Britain itself, because unlike Germany, it never threatened Britain’s naval dominance around her own shores
The evidence is there in the sources we have both produced that the Germany built up their navy to the second largest in the world in order to put pressure on Britain to seek an accommodation (which favoured Germany) with them. It seems to have never occurred to the German leadership that this threat might force Britain to seek other allies in Europe who were also opposed to German domination of Europe instead.
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Britain didn't force Germany to declare war on Russia and France, and invade two neutral nations.
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I never said or proclaimed that, -so why do you resort to irrational and incorrect accusations ?
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Because this gets to the heart of British involvement in 1914, if Germany had not been seen as the aggressor with the declaration on war against both France and Russia and the invasion of Belgium, its probable that Britain would have remained neutral, despite the unofficial agreements Britain had with France
History Today - Germany, Britain & the Coming of War in 1914 : Richard Wilkinson explains what went wrong in Anglo-German relations before the First World War.