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"So our poor old Empire is alone in the world?" "Aye we are - the whole 500 million of us" Edit: Ninja'd

Two contemporary cartoons which show 2 sides of British feeling at the time.

Because some countries on the Security Council have veto powers. It would be very very unusual for none of them have more interest in...

Russian mobilisation =/= Russian entry into the war - see earlier posts about when Austria and Russia declared war, and previous...

Declarations of war Austria on Serbia - July 28. This did not guarantee a wider war, as Austria only declared war on Russia on 6 July...

You're tying yourself in knots here. Germany declared war so that it could invade Belgium.

heh is that a point your sure you want to make in defence of Germany :) ?

Time-travelling again. In 1914 it probably was an inescapable casus belli.

Perhaps a peace treaty that requires the French to hand over its fleet, and restrict its Army to 100,000 men? ;)

Up to a point... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Seas_Fleet

And who's fault is it that Germany designed a defense strategy based on a dooms day clock? The Heer decreed the war plan was...

Actually the quote that InMediaRes used was referring to a statement made in 1892 by General Boisdeferre to Tzar Alexander, Boisdeffre...

Not always. The German message to France to hand over its border fortresses wasn't really an attempt to save peace, it was to engineer...

No. Pay close attention to these sentences: Germany has no mobilization only plan. There is no distinction between mobilization and...

Bolding the important parts. You're missing a key distinction. In the event of war Russia and France committed to attacking on M+15...