Before we discuss German public opinion, which I know nothing about, I would like to establish that British public opinion was that the war needed to be fought.

I have been unable to find a single historian who has expressed a different view, and none of you have either.
I have only found one historian, Niall Ferguson, who thought that Britain did not need to fight, and that was because of his far right views on Empire and Britain remaining a leading world power.

I do dot deny the findings of all those historians.
I accept them.
Do you?

And Rag, do you really think that historians specialising in WW1 are unaware of propaganda and conscription, and that they would change their views if only they knew what you know?
Really Rag?