Why was WWI fought? Was it pointless?

Why was WWI fought? Was it pointless?

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Im actually more intetested im talking about how the brits have a shit navy. I guess no alotted funds and neglect will turn your branch into a joke rather quickly

The entire world was a giant land grab so the super powers had a fight over who got it.

It was inevitable. The alliance system that was in place in Europe made it just a matter of time until a war that engulfed the entire world happened.

Was it pointless? Yes! Really retarded war.

The Germans didn't want to fight, but they had to support their only allie considering they were surrounded on all sides by their rivals.
Britain didn't want to fight, but they were forced to when Germany invaded Belgium.

The Russians didn't want to fight the Germans. Both the czar and the Kaiser were cousins and they exchanged correspondence that indicated their unwillingness to fight.

The only person who could've stopped the austrians from going to war was assassinated in Sarajevo, and his assassination was the spark that ignited the war, that is the great irony of WW1.

There's a YouTube channel that goes in great detail about WW1 and I recommend you go and check it out if you are really interested in it. It's called the great war I believe.

What's wrong with our navy?

We've been upgrading it constantly over the past decade

It was a continuation of the wars fought in the 19th century, it went abit overboard with smokeless powder and machine guns.

UK didnt wanted to get outjewed by germany in the boat business so they stared a war.

UK wanted to remove Imperial Germany as a military & economic competitor, which they did.

why pointless?
>German aim of Europe wide customs union, German empire realised in EU.
>UK imperial acquisitions increased as a result of the war but empire collapsed soon after.
>Treaty of Versailles so punitive sowed seeds of larger war.
>Kaiser Bill was no Napoleon, Bolshevik revolution birthed a global threat.

In the old world order, wars on continental Europe were expect every 50 years or less. Leaders and populations had a strong sense of nationalism and it was accepted that the best way to gain wealth and resources for your people was to invade someone.

All that changed after the proliferation of atomic weapons and the realization that war now meant that people back home would be killed in wars, including the leaders and their families.

Wow what you have big boats and 0 military strategy. Do you not remember what we did to the Spanish armada? Also when was the last time you idiots won a war without our help?

This bloke knows what's what.

>The great war
Mah nigga

Britain commemorates the dead of both world wars each year but its a shameless mockery, they all died to prevent German hegemony. Germany now rules Europe and Britain is awash with foreign settlers invited by a careless establishment. Its even gotten to the point where the establishment of Britain claims WW2 was a war against racism rather than what it was- a clash of empires.

Keeping up face.
And alot of countries with sore bums from conflicts in the previous century.

Your navy is depleted, old and undermamned.


Stop trying so hard. Your navy is bomafied shit. Dont baw at me. Accept it.

>It was inevitable.

bullshit. Britain was under ZERO obligation to go to war, they wanted war. Germany and France and possibly Russia could have just slugged it out but it was Britain dragging in its empire that made the war global, and ofc they told a lot of propaganda lies to USA to get them to join in too.

>Britain didn't want to fight, but they were forced to when Germany invaded Belgium.
This, we're a peaceful people really.

Seems like niggers really hated telegraph lines. Probably at the time it was like stealing cell phones.

ISLAND OF PEACE

Shut up plastic paddy, you're just butthurt that your little Easter Rising failed hard.

Go suck some German and Arab dick. Faggot.

You can shut your nigger dick sucking mouth too you fat faggot.

No ww2 was a war against fascism not racism. We liked racism just dandy back then.

Wait I know who this Irish guy is, it's O`Riley the German cock eater. HAHAHAHAHA! Oh he's back baby. Yay, fun times ahead.

whyd you type out what you just said to your mom?

They were after Belgium was invaded. When the war started they did not join the war.

Britain wasn't the only one with a overseas empire. They had the largest one by far. Germany, France, Portugal and pretty much every European country had overseas territory.

We wuz peaceful and shiiiet.

To be honest in both world wars Britain always had a more peaceful and diplomatic attitude. They only joined the wars after their allies were attacked.

>Im actually more intetested im talking about how the brits have a shit navy
USA literally has 20 aircraft carriers and another 20 planned with air wings that are have at best a 1,000km range while anti-ship cruise missiles (in china) have a range of 4,000km
talk about a shit fucking navy, in a real war USA would lose billions of dollars worth of assets and thousands of lives, you can't project shit unless up against a defenceless nation

Fucking rich faggots

See this video to fully understand. He mentions it in the first minute of his talk.

youtube.com/watch?v=htUbL166axQ

>rules
it "rule the waves"
its meant to be an order from heaven

You know nothing about the USN. Stop even thinking you do. Its meme worthy you talk about a country branch you have NO CLUE about. Oh and also for an island you should be worried about what you have to defend yourself before china encroaches on you even more. Braindead cuck


Oh well u haff 5 boats n they cant do anything because u will diedid

Hahahahahahaha. Talk about something you know, which im sure is nothing

F-35C, 1,000km range
fas.org/man/eprint/F35-sar-2016.pdf#page=16

Chinese DF-26, 4,000 km range anti ship
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DF-26

tell me where I'm wrong fuckboy

It was pointless in the sense that the assassination of one man, Franz Ferdinand led to the death of millions. From that perspective it seems incredibly wasteful and unnecessary but on the other hand as other posters have mentioned, the great powers; Britain, Germany, France, Austria-Hungary, Russia and The Ottomans were itching for war for their own reasons.

Britain was concerned that Germany was building up its naval force which could challenge British supremacy over the seas. France wanted revenge from Germany ever since the Franco-Prussian war and they saw this an opportunity to tip the balance of power on mainland Europe in France's favour once and for all. Germany was late to the colonial game and saw the war as a chance to take colonial possessions from the other powers. Austria-Hungary had desires to expand further into the Balkans. Russia was concerned that the other powers were technologically advancing at such a pace that Russia could not keep up. These are just some, there are plenty more reasons as to why a war would be favourable for the great powers.

The assassination was the straw the broke the camel's back. If it never occurred, some form of war between the great powers around that time period would have very likely taken place anyway over something else.

Lastly I'll point to an eerily prophetic quote from Otto von Bismarck:

“One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).”

Anglos wanted the war ever since Germany surpassed them in every industrial category.

See:

The root cause of both world wars were that Britain and France were too selfish and stubborn to acknowledge Germany's emergence and the #1 power on the European continent.

They wasted everything trying to preserve the status quo instead of seeking an accomodation that would have benefited everyone.

Yes it was pointless.

I mean, 20 millions white men died for Franz Ferdinand but no one know what kind of man he was.

Fuck off, why Krauts wanted to annex Serbia ? Their « muh gloria Prussia »meme was not enough ? Slavs dindu nuffin.

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>Britain was under ZERO obligation to go to war
What was
>What is the treaty of London

Fought so Austria-Hungary could maintain a position of power of Serbians and so the Germans could maintain strength over a modernizing Russian army

he's handsome

Yes, Germany's birth as a new and fast growing power was considered a threat towards their dominance on the West, Bismarck wanted to create a strong state whilst keeping the balance of power in Europe, but the Brits disliked this a lot, specially their growing navy. Wilhelm II was also a terrible leader, diplomatically he was terrible compared to Bismarck, by far, the iron chancellor is simply amazing.

LISTEN UP!

Europe was a BLACK continent

BLACK empires grew even bigger and stronger than before which led to the Great War

the white devil seized the opportunity and began to colonize Europe

that's why it is majority white now

i bet u live in balbriggan nigger spawn

What is strategic bases and posts all over the world?? What is a phenomenal submarine force?

I didnt claim there arent long range missles you stupid fucking nigger. Look at that pathetic display of shitposting by a braindead auscuck who wikid missle travel distance and some how thinks he has some actual knowledge hahahahahahahahahaahah

Oh well da china missle can travel n hit ur shipz

Hahahahaha fucking kill yourself

Auscucks are too afraid to attempt to autonomously navigate the waters, too aftaid of china slowly but surely building in the waters surrounding you.

Fucking nerd

JUST FUCK MY CENTURY UP

Increase overall Jewish control over lands and governments. Not nationalism, not that, not this, it was Jews. Just like WWII. Kike instigated wars while sacrificing europe's youth.

I wonder if they want war now that Germany has surpassed them in the immigration industry.

Oh look at big boy over here offended because his jew-run country's slave army has big guns :((((((((

Americans calling anyone else in the world a cuck is fucking hilarious. Yeah chinks are autistic cowards with a shit navy and you could probably occupy a bit of Chinese territory for 10+ years and then withdraw without accomplishing anything but the loss of billions of dollars as is the standard US strategy, but what's that matter when your own country is so fucked that it will collapse in on itself within the next 50 years anyway

Hahahahahahahaha fucking seppos

Just kys you irrelevant piece of shit. Billions loss hahaha yea jews and money lelelele! Downfall hahah 50 years!!!

Not even worth interacting with you stupid white niggers

Bullshit JIDF. Brits wanted war for years, they were craving for it. They just needed a spark to convince their people.

The only reason for WW1 is that Germany was becoming to powerful. German succes and Judeo-British hatred of it, is the reason why WW1 turned into such a mess.

Same with WW2, Brits got tricked by the zionists in fighting 2 pointless wars that changed Europe forever.

>get redpilled faggots, start with Freedman's speech

Doesnt even navigate their own waters because thet are scared cucks


Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!! Cant make this shit up.

Thicko.

pretty much this
but people still blame serbia for the start of the war
funny how we were the last ones that actually needed/wanted a war
not only did we fight and die in the two balkan wars that were just a couple years back
but we became independent less than a 100years ago

they didn't want to annex us
the war started when even though Gavrilo Princip was a member of Young Bosna therefor a Serb
serbia claimed that they had nothing to do with him (well Black Hand and Apis have, but they were another thing)
but AH wanted too many things from us, and we didn't want to back down for no reason, so it happened.

>They were after Belgium was invaded.

such a meme and propaganda tool. nothing to do with 'right of small nations', they were knocking 7 shades of shit out of the 'small nation' Ireland as they pontificated.

>Brits wanted war for years, they were craving for it
So was the rest of Europe

Why does everyone on this site believe every word to come out of a stormfag's mouth?

>the treaty of London
1915 you gimp, war declared 1914

Yes, the South China Sea, another great example of shit coming to wherever America touches. Frankly it's not our business and whatever we do is token support for the ANZUS treaty.

Yeah sorry but your country is going to be

>Brits wanted war for years, they were craving for it.

this. they wanted German Navy out of the way. they wanted German economic output / competition eliminated. and they wanted the age old foreign policy aim of divide & rule Europe. This is why Britain turned 1914 into a global war and didn't in 1870. They lied through their teeth at the time and been lying about it ever since. Check out Fergusons 'Pity of War'.

No. It was a war between systems, between the traditional system of Empires, good, wholesome, focused on values, and the new system of (((capitalist))) democracies, depraved and only out for money with no regard for their own people.

We lost, and the modern world is the result. Every time you see a degenerate, thank the Entente.

>Was it pointless?

Yes.

It seems you are quite butthurt, but that doesn't change the facts.

Speaking as a former K.u.K. inhabitant (on vacation): This Austriafag is right.

As a check on German power

>Why was WWI fought?
You may laugh, but actually because of the oil.

>Was it pointless?
From the anglo point of view not, because they managed to deny Germans access to it and incite revolution in Russia which has been eyeing the India.

So that in 2016 we could finally get a halfway decent video game.

youtube.com/watch?v=K1SpJ15HadE

fact: states use political figleafs to mask their actual, far less idealistic motivations every day of the week. concern for Belgium was literally bottom of the list, just a useful meme for the propaganda effort.

>Britain was under 0 obligation to go to war
>They wanted war

Neville Chamberlin was purely against war and saw Germany and Hitler as allies. He allowed them to break the Treaty of Versailles and even allowed them to take land that wasn't theirs. In the end, he warned them saying if they attack Poland its war. Hitler went ahead and did it anyway, so Our neville (I can call him that, he's from my city) Resigned. He didnt want war at all.

correction*** not allies, but friends. He wanted to build the relationship between the two nations, he had several meetings with Hitler before WW2

also

>Britain has a shit navy

its not what it used to be, but its enough to defend our shores and beyond. We are an Island race. We were born to rule the waves.

Yeah Verdun, not shitty battlefield

Yep
Peaceful German dindus of course didnt want to fight.
But when Austria (on their advice) attacked Serbia, they had no choice but to declare war on Russia and France and to invade Belgium.

GERMANY DINDU NUFFIN WONG!!!!!
HE A GOOD BOI!!!!!!

Listen up you potato nigger if not for ameritards muh heritaging you because they need an excuse for getting shitfaced and wearing green no one could even point your country on the map is there anything Ireland is known for aside from leprechauns and IRA? Your capital was founded by vikings so thanks to them you have something resembling a city and if not for glorious british people you would still have no electricity, lived in mud huts and launch cattle raids. Your "nation" disgusts me. Copypaste this to every Irish you see.

we was KANGZ

Lol, taking credit for storms now are we Britain?

God was on our side laddy, Rule Britannia.

>>What is the treaty of London

A mere scrap of paper :^)

It was the last breaths of dying empires in a new world they didn't understand. Young men sent to die stupidly by stubborn old men from another time. A stupid, pointless tragic war.

Herr Wilhelm wanted to play a game of real life Risk with his cousins.

>talking shit about balbriggan

who are you cunt i'll fight you

>Why was WWI fought
It started because Britain didn't want Germany getting any stronger. It turnes out Germany basically won the war in 1916 and then kikes got involved, conspiring with Britain to get the US involved. Based man tells it all.
youtu.be/x8OmxI2AYV8

n1

>we would send out carriers out with no protection

Do you not understand what the purpose of guided-missile cruisers are for? It's called a carrier GROUP for a reason and each carrier group has a shitload of cruisers and destroyers that can literally shoot satellites out of space.

I think they can handle a couple of cruise missiles while china's TELs get bombarded into craters by SLBMs and ALCMs.

Basically this.

Family infighting just like almost every other war in Europe prior.

Everything's pointless if you look deep enough, it's the true red pill

Sure. That new carrier is looking pretty anglOed if you catch my drift.

So EA could completely rewrite it and make all of the white soldiers into niggers

angled anglo carriers.

it was fought so that WW2 could begin.

> literally gets shrekt
> types out useless, irrelevant info trying to pass it off as "intelligent"
> makes self look even more inept and unaware

Just kill yourself already.

wrong war bro

The origins of WWI is probably one of most written-about subjects in history. There is no clear cut case of good or bad guys, and you can argue that all participants shared in the blame for the conflict.

>battle of Trafalgar
Dude that was like 300 years ago