Britain Should Not Have Fought in the First World War

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7. And it was in Britain's own interests, too, not to have an enemy....

in control of land right by Britain's ports. Britain is a port country. Its trade through its ports was everything.

So it not only had a treaty to honor, it was also in Britain's own interests in some ways, too. Although there were reasons not to.

We have alliances. That's why we got into WWII. Germany wasn't invading us. Germany was trying to take over our allies, and succeeding. AND it was in our own interests not to have Germany own Europe.

War is horrible, though. Women rulers wage war, too. But I think less. We need to have more women leaders. (OTOH, Queen Elizabeth presided over a huge imperialistic expansion, I think. Then there was Margaret Thatcher.)