Chapter 196 - 196: Britain's Response to Belgium

While armies shifted across the continent and the first great collisions of the new war drew nearer, the Channel did not feel like a moat.

It felt like a narrow strip of water separating Britain from a disaster it could not yet measure.

In London, the British government had expected war eventually. They had anticipated it for years—counted the ships, watched German steel rise, watched German factories multiply, watched German birthrates swell. But they had not expected the world to tip so quickly, so cleanly, so abruptly into open declarations.

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