Or we could try to find common ground.
We must agree on some things.

The war was a catastrophe in economic terms leaving Europe utterly impoverished, but above all it was a human catastrophe on an unprecedented scale of horror.
Agree?

WW2 was an equivalent disaster for Europe.
Agree?

Those views expressed by Jim on WW1 have been put forward by eminent historians and are still widely believed.
Agree?

Current historians do not accept those views, and none of us have found anything written in the last 20 years that does.
Agree?