He doesn't get into why they don't trust them though, basically because of their association with people like him!

Wrong.

He gets it.

But remember what Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg told Kaiser Willhelm before World War I.

"You are going to war, whether you like it or not."

So yes, nobody wants it but it happens anyway because people don't just stop them in their tracks until slaughter in a capital S happens.