Winnie was younger then and feeling his oats a bit. After all, he had Jellicoe and this spiffy navy and cock-all to do with it....Because Britain is clearly the cause of it all,
I mean, they funded the assassination, sent the declaration of war from Austria to Serbia via the Royal Mail, using the royal connections further to cause postal delays so the Tsar and Kaiser to go to war with eachother, then they secretly even convinced the 'Kaiser' that good ol' Blightly won't join the war if they steamroll over Belgium and do a pre-emptive strike against France.
Yes... those biased historians all have it wrong. Shame on them.
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