what bizarre history have you been studying?
I read books not written by sides that won the war or ones that pull a: “Raw! Raw! the allies are the good guys…we win again!”
Please read about Raymond Poincaré. He was a proven warmonger who primed France deliberately for the 2-3 years before the 1914 conflict mobilizing his forces to get into a war where France can be back the Alsace Lorraine lost to the OTHER war France started and Lost in 1870. He was a seething french patriot who could not let losing that land go and spent the better part of his career trying to politically isolate the growing Prussian dominance on the continent. Prussian Hegemony was coming by peaceful means because the German people basically worked harder than others to achieve it.
also look at:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revanchism
As soon as The Kaisers treaty with the Czar lapsed the French immediately jumped in and snapped up them, knowing the proven issue that Germany was naturally aligned with her ally Austria Hungary out of necessity, and secondly, knowing that the Austrians and Russians had a long standing issue with the Balkans.
The Russians always sought to obtain a warm water port and tried to stir up trouble to exploit it latter all hoping to gain by treaty or outright annexation the territory that would facilitate this access.
Once the Russians who were bound to her treaty went to mobilize against the Austrians, the French who had already mobilized made Germany’s decision a forced outcome, because France wanted to immediately jump in the war which forced the Kaiser to commit to her ally the Austrians and begin the Schliefen Plan. Now remember the French too had their plan 17 so don’t think the Germans just made crafty little plans of conquest.
The mobilization of the Kaiser was basically forced upon by two factors: The Czar ordering full mobilization and the French who were already mobilized for 3 years ready for anything to get started.
After the war Raymond tried to keep his reputation clean by an aggressive stance at Versailles, so that the “French Revenge” could not be repayed at a latter date, and Raymond made sure the “huns” were punished only at the expense of being a loser of a war, but a total clean slate approach of reducing the natural industrial nature of the German people, by removing territory that she would undoubtedly need to again become a major European player. This was the basic approach of french politics in the post war period, because the french themselves knew they cannot any longer become a world power, so the tactic was to deny Germany’s right to become a world power.
IN my opinion thats the most cowardly act possible by deliberately bringing down another nation because you yourself cannot or do not possess the ability to make your nation better. Thats an act of national jealousy and in France it continues today in various proven forms.
