Perkeo
Banned
Congratulations, you have effectively established that the outcome of WWI was bad.
This is not the same as establishing that the choice to enter WWI was better than the alternatives, which could have been equally bad. Or that the powers could have reasonably expected the outcome without hindsight.
IMHO Germany COULD AND SHOULD have forseen the outcome of WWI without hindsight. OK, once the July crisis was there, Germany might indeed have thought that a preemptive strike was the lesser evil, but in the years before they must not have failed to prevent loosing all their allies one by one and be surrounded by an alliance they couldn't beat.
Also, I get the impression that you think that being a subordinate state in some other state's hegemonic orbit is not such a bad thing compared to hundreds of thousands of casualties. But this is a value judgment, not a strategic judgment.
At the very least you should not end ub with both, as all of Europe did.