France and Russia were the aggressors.
Yeah, that thread is about WW2, and how much The Treaty of Versailles caused it. IIRC, Tokyo Bayer never replied to any of my posts or points, nor was I “convincingly shot down.” 
Note that Dissonance just relies upon the now debunked lie that Germany mobilized first and thus started it.
The German General staff was sure that Germany would LOSE the Great War (which is what happened, oddly). Why would you start a war you knew you were going to lose? The Germans thought there was one strategy would could pull Victory out of the jaws of Defeat. 1. There were sure the Russian steamroller was unstoppable (they were wrong). 2. They thought Russia was gonna be slow the mobilize (wrong again). 3. They thought they could beat France in a very short time, and then stave off Russia (wrong). It was a “Hail Mary pass”.
Yes, the Imperial Germans deserve full blame for invading Belgium. That was not only morally wrong, but stupid. Not to mention, in a war full of atrocities by all players (maybe not the latecomer USA) the German atrocities in Belgium were the worst.
“Russian-French falsifications of documents” . France had gone deeply in debt loaning Russia millions of francs to build a modern rail made to mobilize against Germany. They wanted to get Germany to pay for that and everything else. Thus France falsified documents to show German mobilized and attacked first- (which they did not), so the Treaty could say Germany had the blame for starting the war, and thus had to pay France. France lied to get money. And historians believed those lies until fairly recently. That part of the treaty- the “war blame” was what pissed Germany off, they knew it was a lie, but any objections would mean no food for their staving people. Mind you certainly making Germany pay for Belgium would be the right thing. However, afaik, Belgium got none of the gold, only some livestock. The gold went to France and the UK.