Why wasn't Britain allied with Germany during ww1?

Why wasn't Britain allied with Germany during ww1?

The uk was allied with Germany for many years and still hated France

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They had a defensive pact with neutral Belgium. When Germany invaded Belgium they were obligated to enter in on their side to defend them.

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Because Britain didn't like the idea of any power becoming dominant on the European continent. Germany looked like they might seize that laurel, so the Brits moved to keep them from doing so.

That was the official justification. In truth, Britain and Germany had been drifting away from each other for years prior, while Britain and France had signed an alliance in 1904. This was because Britain saw an expansionist Germany as a threat to the balance of power in Europe, and because Germany's naval and colonial ambitions were seen as trying to overtake Britain.

That's a misconception. The treaty they signed did not require Britain to declare war on Germany. British politicians were itching for a war for some years before and were already committed even before Belgium was invaded. Belgium was just used as the excuse for war.

because willy was autistic, if it was anyone else there probably would have been an alliance with the both of them as well as russia

Treaty of London
>"Under the treaty, the European powers recognized and guaranteed the independence and neutrality of Belgium and established the full independence of the German-speaking part of Luxembourg. Article VII required Belgium to remain perpetually neutral, and by implication committed the signatory powers to guard that neutrality in the event of invasion."

>British politicians

Which ones? The Conservatives. Now who controlled the British government in 1914? The Liberal Party headed by Herbert Asquith, Sir Edward Grey, and David Lloyd George. There is no evidence that the Liberal Party favored a war, and indeed, the evidence suggests that they were firmly against joining the war UNTIL Germany invaded Belgium. And even after Belgium was invaded, it was a very close vote. So no, Belgium was not "just an excuse." It was the single most important factor in bringing Britain into the war.

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they anglos were paranoid about it because it would mean that germany could transport troops to the middle east threatening british possessions and rendering the mighty royal navy useless.

its kind of funny and ironic how a railway can put such fear into the hearts of the supposedly greatest empire in history, enough to waste 6 million of its population on a pointless war.

>The uk was allied with Germany for many years and still hated France
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Jewish influence in the British government steered them away from aiding the rising power of the Aryan ethnostate after Bismarck did his deeds

the previous 25 years of german foreign policy played the biggest role in that.

Britain essentially wanted peace in europe and maritime supremacy, Germany wanted european hegemony and no foreign maritime supremacy.

Once Germany started looking like they might assume european hegemony British foreign policy became to help prop up france, especially given that the french were willing to negotiate with the british and had settled all of their colonial frictions.

the germans on the other hand had pissed the british off on multiple occasions with crude ham handed bluster in diplomacy and by attempting to challenge the RNs supremacy, especially by refusing to discuss slowing the building rate even once it became clear that they would not win the building race.

frankly trouble was brewing once the germans started building the fleet, a fleet like that could only have one opponent given the geography of germany

Because Wilhelm II was an impetuous retard

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The casus belli Britain had was the invasion of Belgium, with the German's invasion violating the Treaty of London, Britain chose to uphold the terms of it.

But in all reality a German-dominated European mainland would be detrimental to British interests in terms of influence and market access to the continent. Britain and Germany already had icy relationships with their naval arms race along with damaged relations coming from Germany's bellicose stance against France during the Moroccan Crisis (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Moroccan_Crisis).

By that time, Germany had already fully severed any chance of rebuilding relationships with Britain by attempting to strongarm France for influence in Africa, and the Kaiser invested more in his triple alliance with Austria-Hungary and Italy, and of course that investment failed with Italy being alienated from the alliance due to Germany and Austria-Hungary's frankly batshit diplomacy, ultimately siding with the Entente.

The same reason they'd always fpught France. Britain's historical position was always to keep any continental power from becoming strong enough to destroy them. Add to that a naval arms race.

Didn't Willy absolutely hate the English for being the doctors that fucked up his arm and let his dad die? Didn't he piss off the French and the English in several speeches? No way would England ally herself with Germany, and vice versa.

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While there was a sort of cooling of relations between Britain and France in the late 1890s, by the time WW1 rolled around all that was long in the past.
As other anons have pointed out, the German/English beef has gone back a long ways, practically since the formation of the Second Reich. A good example of the animosity from England are the countless pieces of 'Invasion Literature' that was produced during the time.

The eternal bong knows no party, and sought to get into a war with Germany for years before this, and made sure to line up France and Russia against them first, before launching that war.

So you agree that the bongs sought war with Germany. Smart.

Balance of power if England was allied to Germany Germany would have completed dominated Europe. England would have a stronger role with Germany kept in check

You mean like today?

>how dare someone else build a navy