There was probably some small player in WWI who got dragged into it due to treaties or to fight alongside a larger neighbouring force. Like idk Montenegro or Malta or something. But it’s almost guaranteed that they were fighting or aiding some scumbag country in WWI given the fact that virtually everyone in WWI was a scumbag country, especially in Europe at the time.
Also don’t quote me on Malta or Montengro, those were just hypotheticals and WWI isn’t my speciality.
The best you’re likely to find aside from some small country with reasonably clean hands in WWI would be an underdog; it’s a bit like looking for the good guy during the century of humiliation in China (at least until the CPC formed and, I’d argue, the KMT under Sun Yat-Sen gets a pass too); the Qing Dynasty were definitely the underdogs and countries like Britain and Japan were definitely the aggressors but everyone was terrible and it only varied in the degree to which they were terrible. And usually then the only limiting factor in how terrible these players were was their relative political, economic, and military weakness that restrained them from being able to expand the scope of how terrible they were.
There was probably some small player in WWI who got dragged into it due to treaties or to fight alongside a larger neighbouring force. Like idk Montenegro or Malta or something. But it’s almost guaranteed that they were fighting or aiding some scumbag country in WWI given the fact that virtually everyone in WWI was a scumbag country, especially in Europe at the time.
Also don’t quote me on Malta or Montengro, those were just hypotheticals and WWI isn’t my speciality.
The best you’re likely to find aside from some small country with reasonably clean hands in WWI would be an underdog; it’s a bit like looking for the good guy during the century of humiliation in China (at least until the CPC formed and, I’d argue, the KMT under Sun Yat-Sen gets a pass too); the Qing Dynasty were definitely the underdogs and countries like Britain and Japan were definitely the aggressors but everyone was terrible and it only varied in the degree to which they were terrible. And usually then the only limiting factor in how terrible these players were was their relative political, economic, and military weakness that restrained them from being able to expand the scope of how terrible they were.