It's not in britain's interest to have the entire continent are dominated by one country, which will then be out to get briton. So sometimes you may want to forestall an attack. I do love the bogy man tat that there will be a history will end when somebody dominates the continent. For most of the historys sinson, including the roman emp somebody has dominated the continent at some point. Empires rise, empires falls. Be fixed for ever.
For this week's Sunday Debate, we're dipping back into the archive to 2014, when we gathered a panel of expert historians to debate whether Britain was right to fight in the First World War, a tragedy that laid the foundations for decades of destructive upheaval and violence across Europe. To debate the issue, we invited leading historians Margaret MacMillan, Max Hastings, John Charmley and Dominic Sandbrook to an event hosted by journalist, columnist and national security expert, Edward Lucas.
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