An example of the Thuycidies trap would be WW1 where Germany wanted to fight Russia as it feared that Russia would surpass her due to its greater land, resources, and manpower.

This is simply not true.

Yes, the Germans indeed desired WW1 more than any other nation, but it was never about Russia.

It was about France and the UK.

Germany felt it had been left out of the colonial race as the unified country came to existence after the world had already been divied up by these two powers.

Germans wanted a large colonial empire similar to the ones these guys had and the only way to achieve this goal was to go to war with them.

There was simply no other free land available to colonize.

And then there's Imperial Russia.

In the 20th century it was an agricultural backwater shithole with practically nonexistent a weak industry and illiterate peasant population.

Russia was no match for strong European countries and could hardly be called a 'great power'; its military perfomance in WW1 was a total embarassment; hell, just 10 years prior to WW1 they were defeated by the Japs for God's sake — the Japs, who had just crawled out of the stone age. facepalm

Russia posed no immediate threat to Germany and even if it had great potential, it would take dozens of years before they could harness it — and even that was not a given considering how bad their Imperial regime was.

Even though the Bolsheviks a few years later would go on to greatly improve Russian economy, including the industry, in a rather short timespan, and make it second only to the U.S., the most important thing to keep in mind is that the Czarist regime was very weak, corrupt and extremely ineffective compared to the Communist one, so it's not a good idea to use the impressive Soviet-era Russian economic growth as an example of how fast this country could ascend pre-WW1.

While simultaneously, Britain wanted to fight Germany due to its expanding naval and industrial power.

Right.

WW2 saw this principle once more. Germany was rising in Europe while Britain had stagnated. Britain thus went to war with Germany to prevent her from eclipsing it.

That is a complete nonsense lol.

It was Germany who went to war with Britain, not the other way around.

Germany invaded Poland, which openly had a pact with the Brits that obliged them to intervene in the case of German aggression.

Essentially this non-secret pact meant that invading Poland was tantamount to declaring a war on Britain, and the Moustache Wearing Retard proceeded with his imperialist ambitions nonetheless.

And before you say something like:

'B-but Poland was none of Britain's business!! If the Brits didn't want to fight, they could screwed the pact and stayed out of the conflict! See, the fact they so eagerly went to war with Germany over this piece of paper proves they were the ones who wanted it!'

Consider that ever since Hitler came to power, all the Brits (along with the French) did was appeasing the Germans and trying to avoid another bloody war.

They allowed Hitler to rebuild the military (in direct violation of the treaty of Versailles) and secure areas like Ruhr. They were okay with the rising Germany as long as it didn't mean a new war.

Just a year before the invasion of Poland, the Brits served Hitler the Czech republic on a goddamn silver platter — for the single reason they thought it would satisfy his appetite and prevent an armed conflict.

But the bloodlusty Nazi scum would shortly afterwards go on another rampage nonetheless like the murderous lunatics they were.

Really shows who actually 'went to war' with whom.