That was the real goal of both World Wars; Maintaining the balance of power. Great superpowers compete with each other; war was inevitable. In both scenarios, the idea was to destroy the empires, decentralizing their power, partitioning their territories and sinking them into economic depressions to prevent them from ever rising again. That's why Germany had to pay millions in reparations in spite of them not having initiated the war.
Skeptic5000 0 points 3.9 years ago
That was the real goal of both World Wars; Maintaining the balance of power. Great superpowers compete with each other; war was inevitable. In both scenarios, the idea was to destroy the empires, decentralizing their power, partitioning their territories and sinking them into economic depressions to prevent them from ever rising again. That's why Germany had to pay millions in reparations in spite of them not having initiated the war.