From the perspective of President Roosevelt's personal interests, in the predicament of a stalemate in the war against China, opening a new battlefield may be able to obtain some victories to increase domestic support, so Theodore Roosevelt's statement was absolutely serious. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, the entry of the United States and France into the war alone was not enough to frighten the German Empire, which was the most powerful in Europe, especially the army that was the largest in Europe, and the First World War did not break out in advance, mainly due to the British Empire, the former world hegemon, and the superb diplomatic art displayed by British Prime Minister Joseph Chamberlain has also been talked about by later generations of diplomats......

The old Chamberlain realized the danger of the Tsarist Russia's neighbors taking advantage of the fire to loot after learning of the defeat of the Tsarist Russia's Southwest Front, and Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire were just that, the key was Germany, once Germany obtained Poland and even Ukraine to make up for the shortcomings of agriculture, and at the same time German industry also gained a larger market and cheap labor, then no matter what way he came up with, he could not prevent Germany from dominating the European continent, which was unacceptable to Britain, the "European-stirring stick", and they did not hesitate to fight for this.

Even before Germany began preparations for war, the British government ordered the home fleet to assemble and stand by, and at the same time formally sent a diplomatic note to Germany, demanding that it immediately cease all actions that might exacerbate regional tensions. However, the German Junkers, blinded by greed, turned a deaf ear to this, so the elder Chamberlain soon played a second card, and it took only one day to formally conclude a treaty with the French government to form an alliance with it and make it public, which made it clear that the two countries would be in Europe (Chamberlain the elder still did not want to go to war with China, unless he could pull the whole Western world together). That is to say, if Germany's declaration of war on Russia leads to France's declaration of war on Germany, Britain will follow France in declaring war on Germany, and the enemies that Germany will face will be the four major powers of Britain, the United States, France and Russia!

And the British government has not only said it, but more importantly has taken concrete actions to show its determination. On the third day after the conclusion of the treaty between Britain and France, the main force of the British home fleet sailed to the main base of the German Navy, the Kiel military port, to conduct the so-called "exercises"; under the deterrence of the largest fleet in history, which alone had more than 40 capital ships, the German Navy did not have the courage to go to sea at all, and always hid in the military port and shivered, like a turtle with a shrunken head......

However, the current gap in the strength of the British and German navies is indeed very large, Britain because it first designed and built dreadnoughts, and the number of large docks that can build 20,000-ton giant ships is the first in the world, and now it has 8 dreadnought-class battleships and 8 invincible-class battlecruisers, and the number of 16 dreadnoughts is the best in the world, while the German Navy finally designed their first dreadnought on the drawings not long ago because of the backwardness of design. And even if it is only compared to the former dreadnoughts, whose combat effectiveness is less than one-third of that of dreadnoughts even after refitting, the German Navy also has less than half of the British Royal Navy......

Even the protection of the naval fortresses could not give the German naval officers and men in the harbor much security, as long as the British Royal Navy home fleet was not afraid of losses, it was fully capable of withstanding the attack of the fortress guns to wipe out the main forces of the German Navy in the harbor, the reason is simple, these fortresses are still older designs, aimed at the front dreadnoughts that are mainly aimed at direct artillery bombardment, the top defense is quite weak, and the dreadnoughts that mainly carry out long-range shelling are precisely their nemesis.

The purpose of the Royal Navy on the doorstep of the British Royal Navy was obvious, and if the German government insisted on going its own way, it would have to pay a heavy price for the destruction of the coastal areas. Even if Germany is a continental country, the coastal zone is also an economically developed region, and it is not easy to make up your mind. Moreover, even if they really made such a determination, Germany still did not have much chance of winning, because Britain alone did not have the certainty of victory, and this was not only because of Britain's geographical location and their naval superiority.

Due to the remarkable results of the "Chamberlain Reforms" and the stimulus of the disastrous defeat in the Second World War, the process of British deindustrialization in this time and space has been greatly delayed, and even reversed in some periods. Economic data for 1905 show that Britain's total industrial output was nearly 15 percent higher than that of Germany, even if it was only on the mainland, in contrast to the historical pre-World War I period, and more than 25 percent if the colonies were included (the industries of Britain's major colonies received more investment than in the same period in history, so as to ensure that even if the sea routes were cut off by the Chinese navy, they would not soon lose their ability to resist). Coupled with the resources and cannon fodder advantages brought by the vast colonies, Germany has absolutely no chance of winning in the struggle for national strength.

As Europe's most successful wall-header, the Italian government saw this earlier than Germany, and before the Germans could react, they were the first to announce their withdrawal from the Triple Alliance and join the "2+2" entente led by the United Kingdom. Italy's treachery dealt a heavy blow to the German government, but it was richly rewarded from the British, with the support of the British government, Italy boldly declared war on the Ottoman Empire, with the goal of capturing Tripolitania and Cyrenaica on the other side of the Mediterranean. Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Turkish Empire had to regrettably abandon his plans to go to war against Russia.

Italy's entry into the Entente not only directly threatened the Ottoman Turkish Empire, but also its former ally Austria-Hungary was also unstable in its backyard and did not dare to invest too many troops in foreign expansion. In this way, the war against Russia was not so certain, and the British government hinted that they could acquiesce in their annexation of Serbia, which was enough to satisfy the greatly reduced appetite of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, so the old emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Franz Joseph I, decisively ordered the suspension of the war mobilization that was almost completed, and the Russian Tsar Nicholas II finally breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the good news.