Was it a mistake to rescue France in 1914?
The world before ww1 was a different world. People still believed in honor and doing the right thing. In those days if a politician was a crook and it came out the government could fall. During ww1 all those ideals died, it was such a dreadful war that bit by bit all the good intentions and civilisation died and made way for the death camps and barbarism of ww2. The educated young men of 1914 were idealists, they were going to change the world for the better, but most of them died in the trenches. In all previous wars, when one side lost the winner did not occupy their country indefinitely. Look at the Napoleonic wars, the previous big european wars. Germany would have won, it was the BEF that slowed their advance for a critical time and allowed the French to get organised. Without Britain in the war the Lusitania would not have been sunk and the US would not have come in. As to the French appreciating their British allies, my uncle was there, and he told me that the French threw turds
