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Britain Should Not Have Fought in the First World War
Intelligence Squared
The Redwood Grey and the Tar Baby Solution
Britain's major enemies for most of the 19th century had been French and Russians. We end up fighting on their side by what I would call the redwood grey and the tar baby solution. Because unless you imagine this bogeyman Germany, what do you get? You get a war for the balance of power in Europe. The Russians were a far greater threat to Britain than Germany.
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