Do u think britain had the right interfer?

Question

Do u think britain had the right to interfer with ww1!

I mean austria-hungary declares war on serbia- u.k dont care!
germany declares war on russia - u.k does nothing
germany invades luxembourg- again u.k does nothing
germany want to pass through belgium to attack france- britain does nothing about germnay attacking france and yet as soon as germany trespasses on belgium land united kingdom declares war on germany

do u think we should of inteferred and let germany grow in europe or we did well to put germany in its place

plz tell me wat u think

Answer 1

Very insightfull question...and the answer is you had the right to interfere, but unfortunately you mismanaged the war entirely, did not put Germany in its place, and allowed that war to indirectly put an end to your empire.

Though simple as this may sound, GB and Germany were more alike than different and it was only competition from Germany at sea that posed the final threat to the British. GB did not want Germany, or anyone else, to dominate the continent and upset the balance of power, but if the Kaiser wanted a rival navy too, that would be the final straw. In all honesty, Belgium was as important to GB as Poland was 25 years later. It served as a casus belli, nothing more. Certainly if the GB of 1914 could not even dislodge Germany from Belgium, I can hardly imagine what they had in mind to support Poland against Germany, let alone prevent them from conquering it.

The idea was good had the assumptions been correct. A Germany that dominated the continent with a navy would be unacceptable, and maybe even a real threat to the Empire if Germany became an enemy nation. However, that was not the case. Germany was not an enemy of Britain. Britain's fear that it might become so made it that reality. So even given the benefit of the doubt that it would become so, the next problem was execution of strategy.

It had no objectives strategically aside from maybe seizing some insignificant colonies the Germans possessed and simply putting Germany back to the days of Prussia. Militarily there were no objectives placed to really make this happen. It was simply fight them until they give in. Sadly for the British, it took them the entire war and their entire army to learn from mistakes the French and Germans learned in the first year. Troubling still, many today because of the same propoganda, thought they were winning every battle and Germany was losing twice as many men as the them. It was just the opposite. Without American boots, there was no army in Europe in 1918 capable of militarily defeating the Germans. In the end, Wilson, told France and GB that if Germany accepted his 14 points, he would make peace. They both choose to go along because they had no choice. They knew without American men, they could not even move Germany out of France let alone go into Germany.

This need for American involvement gave rise to America as the supreme English power. Nationalism was only risen by WW1 not defeated by it, and that meant that sooner or later the Empire would crumble. So basically, you had every right to interfere, but you ended up not accomplishing anything set out. Germany was stronger within decades than it ever had been and GB was weaker.

Might have been better to allow your German relative to expand than try to smash him. In the end Europe lost. Commiting suicide out of fear of dying.

Answer 2

What do you mean by 'right'? At the time of WWI, the only laws that most nations answered to were those of political expedience. And at that time, it was politically expedient for the UK to uphold the Entente Pact it signed with France and Russia and limit the expansion of Germany over all of Europe. If they failed to honor that obligation, then if Germany turned against Britain (which they might) they could not count on the assistance of the other European powers and may very well had ended up under German suzerainty.

The UK had another good reason to want to avoid allowing one European power to dominate the others. The disastrous Napoleonic Wars had showed them how costly it could be to restrain any one of the major European countries after allowing it to get strong enough to swallow up its neighbors. The whole issue with the Congress of Vienna / Metternich Doctrine that immediately succeeded Napoleon's defeat and the fall of France was that all of Europe was obligated to help preserve the balance of power in order to prevent costly wars like Napoleon's or (ironically) World War I and World War II.

No one can say for sure whether or not it would have been better for the UK to allow Germany free reign over Europe. All that I can do for you is to help explain why they thought that entering World War I was a good idea.

Answer 3

Your question makes a serious error. It suggests that war was the only course. It was not. The WW I was incredibly stupid and no country acted in an honorable way, no country on either side. Remember this was a war of the inbred idiots who ruled Europe as the Kings and Kaisers, all of hhom were cousins and all of whom were Grandsons of Queen Victoria. Only the arms dealers won in this war.

Answer 4

Yes, if they had not finally said, "You crossed the line" there's a very strong chance most of the world would be living under Natizm now. While the idea of Natizm seemed okay on the outside (thinking of our own ghettos throughout our country where I myself sometimes think, "Gee, let's just bomb it all and start over") it was also indescriminate and killed innocent children, familys, people without any regard. Think of your OWN loved one being ripped from your hand, tortured, crying for YOU and you being forced to helplessly watch (a common tactic of the Nazi's) Hey, there were a LOT of people they didn't like, you (or your children) might only have a resemblence of something they didn't like and they'd experiment on you (or your children) like lab animals, then throw you in a hole. Remember, the people lined up thinking they were getting a warm shower and rejoining their families on the other side...imagine yourself taking your child by the hand walking into Disneyland.......

Did Britain do the right thing? What do you think?

Answer 5

Britain was under treaty with many of the nations of Europe. When one of those treaties was invoked, she joined in the war. She honored her commitments.

Answer 6

they had no choice because of military alliances
france is the uks allie so they had to interfere

Answer 7

some answerers are right, there is an error in your question.