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Indubitably. Germany already had built up uneconomic railways in the east too. This is a map of the rail network in Poland (sometime after WWII). Very few of those lines were constructed post-1914. Guess where the German border was ...

Now, isn't this a bit hyperbolic? :) A good point. Nevertheless in the first week of August the effects of the German invasion are impossible to predict.

I disagree with you here. Belgium was just a pretext. Britain had been preparing for war with Germany for years. Any sort of quick defeat of France was up in the clouds - we are talking early August. Simply put in 1914 enough of the British elite thought that the balance of power in Europe had...

The German mobilisation plan involving an invasion of an assuredly neutral country is indeed extremely stupid, showing that civilian oversight of the military is necessary. I disagree with you on the rest. Great Powers bullying lesser states was normal. It just is that victors write the...

Britain had been gearing for war with Germany since the middle/late naughts - including semi-official (which the French thought official) arrangements on where to deploy its army in northern France. Also, curbing its strange obsession with the idea of Russia invading India. So yes, the UK was...

If Sarajevo and France's carte blanche to Sankt Peterburg are as in OTL, then there must be a war. In spite of a more openly hostile UK enough of the top levels of German military had deluded themselves into believing that Moltke's Plan would work. Hence Britain's intervention would come too...