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This feeling was widespread in all of Europe, especially in Britain and France.
And the truth is that they were better prepared for the coming war than the German and Austrian Empires.
The central fact is that France and Britain were positively scared at the skyrocketing growth of the GermaGermann industries in the years 1880-1910, and at the German Navy becoming a contender to be reckoned with.
The rest — Austrian threats to Serbia, German ultimatum to Russia, invasion of Belgium— was just convenient excuses.
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