Lets Get Real:
In today's UK the Great War or World War One is seen through the optics for TV, Film and book versions of the War, thus if you stop someone in the street and ask them to sum up the War in one word you could find the following words, used, Trenches, Waste, Part 1 or 2, or if you dig deep and gave the public a choice they might say, it was the fault of the Germans, it was to rescue Belgium, those on the left might say it was a War for those to make money,etc. So if you ask this blog what the War was about, you would get the following, the real point of entry for the UK was to protect our ally France, the Cabinet was only united when Germany invaded Belgium. The protection of Belgium was underwritten by the UK and Germany, when Germany sent her troops through the UK has to act, but the Britain at the the time was more concerned about the Irish troubles, those troubles were set aside once Germany invaded, and also made the Cabinet united, it can be argued that the UK would never have allowed France to go under, as having Germany that close to British wasters was to much of a threat to the Empire in the long term. Thus once France was under threat it was only a matter of time before the UK came riding to the rescue.
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