Originally Posted by
langleybaston
How about . . . seeing how things were going, training troops like mad, and consider backing the winner when the result seems pretty certain?
[this is not my view, but is an intellectually sound, if dishonourable, standpoint, I believe]
It was, to an extent what seduced Stalin in 1940. And was a Germany point of view expressed to be in Berlin just before the wall came down and not, I believe, new.
"You were on the wrong side" - "together we would have ruled the world"
Did we really want to allow the Germany of Bismarck to replace France of Napoleon? We were quite happy with the British Empire and Pax Britannica and would not have been happy with a Germano-Anglo partnership.