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Possibly a little but Germany is building a large fleet and its conquest of most of western Europe - which would be the case if France fell, would pose serious problems as it did in 1940. On the 2nd point its probably fairly clear where the Germans are going and that nothing going through...

Agree with the point that Britain's policy wasn't divide and conquer as it had neither the means or the intent to do that latter. Keeping Europe being largely united under a single power/bloc was Britain's policy as well as that of most other states at the time. From time to time all the great...

However in this scenario France, while seeing ruinous losses in its initial attacks - but unlikely to give full details of them to its own people let alone foreigners - isn't seeing much of its most developed territory overrun and its capital and existence as an independent state immediately...

Bullying smaller states yes. But the sort of demands that Austria made on Serbia seem to have caused widespread outrage and Serbia still accepted all bar one of them. Furthermore while Serbia was seen as distinctly less than civilized and a few years before had seen the bloody displacement of...

If that was being dragged into WWI then I would hate to see a Germany eager for war!;) They fully supported Austria in very extreme demands on a neighbouring state that were widely seen as unacceptable and again when Austria decided that massive Serbian concessions were unacceptable to them...

Yes the growing hostility of the German leadership, not just the naval threat that Germany was so determined to pose was a major concern for Britain. This went back to at least the Boer war when Germany offered support to the Boers in their attack on S Africa.

Well as you say such a British government is likely to be more belligerent plus with a late POD Germany would go for its OTL invasion of Belgium so I think it would ensure pretty much the war as OTL. A more openly anti-German stance could make France more confident while I can't see it...