Each situation is evaluated on its own terms. Generalizations should not be made. For example, I think the real crime of the British was not that they confiscated the ships they sold when the war broke out. In war you need every ship.I dont know why they still trust the anglo saxons after 100+ years since the battleships we ordered had been seized.
The real problem with the British was something else. For example, the guns of the ships they sold before the war were out of adjustment. The ships' steam boilers were not resistant to high steam pressure. So they were selling defective ships.