"You have been trivialising those deaths for the whole of this thread."

Really Academic Dave? So is there any reason why it is you cannot find one single example of ME doing that?

"The price in blood may be high, but appeasing a tyrant will lead to more human misery not less."

Now in what does Keith's statement trivialise the deaths that resulted from the German Kaiser's drive for war in July and August 1914?

NOBODY has trivialised those deaths.

"When there is no evidence that the German tyrants would have been any different in practice from our own."

What tyrants of our own? A democratically (For the timne) elected Government with a Constitutional Monarch as Head of State - what tyrany? The democratically (For the timne) elected Government of Germany at the time had no say in foreign policy and no say whatsoever on military matters.

As for evidence of aims and ambitions:

1: Was it Great Britain who stood to honour it's Treaty Obligations to defend Belgium's neutrality, or was it France or Germany?

2: Was it Great Britain who threatened to annex Belgium and take over it's colonies should the Belgian Army put up any resistance to an invasion by foreign troops? No I don't believe that it was, it was Germany who issued those threats

3: In fact Academic Dave did Great Britain threaten to invade or take over anyone's territory in July or in August 1914? Examples of this please that can be verified.

4: Here are the German terms dictated to the Russians at Brest-Litovsk in March 1918 tell us Academic Dave if you find those terms reasonable:


Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

In July 1914 the German Emperor embarked on a course of action geared at securing German domination of Europe with the added bonus of acquiring "Germany's place in the sun" by stripping Belgium and France of their overseas possessions and colonies - ALL STATED AIMS Academic Dave so no conjecture required on my part.