"The price in blood may be high, but appeasing a tyrant will lead to more human misery not less."
Tyranny had nothing to do with anything Keith - that is wartime propaganda bullshit.
Each Empire represented tyranny to someone somewhere Britain, Germany, Belgium, France, Russia..... had divided the world up between them and the politicians decimated the generations of their youth in order to maintain those divisions.
The war had nothing whatever to do with freedom and economic conditions at home - it was about who would rule who in Africa, Asia, India.... - it was a war to protect colonies.
The Russian people knew that - they got rid of their feudalistic rulers when they had had enough.
The German people the same - they launched a revolution to get rid of the Militaristic mob that took them into war.
The British clamped down on any significant changes that might have taken place, trades Unions, fights for better conditions.
The Women's suffarage movement made some gains because they supported the war (shamefully)
From day one the Left opposed the war as being Imperialist, which was exactly what it was.
It was never a fight for freedom or national liberation - the victors never became any more "free" after the war, despite having made such a massive sacrifice - it took a decade or so before the colonies began to crumble and economically and socially things became worse, unlike WW2, when a leftish government introduced programmes for the improving the lot of the poor - opposed and eventually dismantled by the right.
THe German leadership was no more a threat that our own rulers - they were headed by the same ****** family.
Had the line of accession been different in Britain regarding of male/female rulers, the Kaiser could have been King of England - that's how different they were.
Acession to the throne
Tyranny my arse - jingoistic bullshit!
Jim Carroll