Jim says:

"World War One was an Imperial war fought, not to defend freedom or to oppose tyranny, as you and others have your kind have claimed, but in defence of the political and economic interest of Empires, all guilty at one time or another of atrocities against the citizens of the colonies being fought over. "

and I entirely agree. I am not saying that the British were more culpable than the Germans or indeed less. Unfortunately only the Russians had the nous and nerve to do anything about it