I do feel that the british government made the right decision, knowing what it knew at the time. I think we also need to emember that the belgian case was not just something that you weigh in a scale. That was not the sort of calculation they were making, or could have made. But let's just remember what happened to belgium, just belgian civilians that were shot. It wasn't just that. 90 %, over 90 %, was occupied by germany. And it gave a very good example of what a european dominated continent would have looked like. Belgian civilians, against allth s of war, were taken off to do forced labor
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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