It had terrible results for the U.S.
What If the United States Had Stayed out of the Great War?
In Europe Germany would be in the driver seat - oh, wait - never mind.
I’d say that the two worst were Woodrow Wilson and FDR. I agree with you about Wilson, but FDR did terrible damage too, with the Great Depression and socialist government. There were major problems with the Second World War, too. Read Evelyn Waugh’s “Sword of Honour” trilogy.
tl;dr
If we’d stayed out of the war until one side won, maybe WWII would have been the US-Japan conflict.
Abraham Lincoln. He not only triggered the growth of the Federal Behemoth, he forever altered the relationship between the States and the Federal Government.
Oh, and he killed directly and indirectly nearly 3 million people, as well as impoverished regions for multiple generations.
With Lenin and Stalin ruling the USSR and the Prussians ruling the rest of Europe, there is no reason to think that the rest of the 20th Century would be any less violent. Germany and the USSR still would have inevitably gone to war. Modern weaponry, including nuclear weapons and ICBM's still would have been developed.
Good one!
Wilson also made another remarkable speech a bit later in life that changed my opinion of him considerably! No easy task.
As even POTUS.45 Trump, I suspect, now realizes the man in the arena may very well be not able to live up to his desired intentions—but it’s the system not the man!
Blogged it several years ago...some of my postings are still out there in cyberspace since 1997...even though most of the sites, forums, bull boards,messageboards, and later “blogs” eventually went belyup.
(The Wayback Machine can sometimes resurrect them, I find.
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How many of our current problems were caused by the end at the British and the French sliced up the Ottoman Empire after the war? Imagine a world without Saudi Arabia, Iraq or Syria as they are currently configured because Germany beat France.
What If the United States Had Stayed out of the Great War?
I sure wish we had.
The worst ever was Jefferson Davis. He blew our sacred chances and kept us chained to the Yankee oppressors for over 150 year. /hell yeah I’m kidding, but some of you still sound like you just need to let it go /donning asbestos underwear.
The author needs to review German history and rewrite the article...
Given the deep wide and continual terrible effects of the Wilson presidency eventually he will take the crown as the worst president in our history.
Are you suggesting he didn’t make the world safe for Democracy?
(snicker, snicker)
He and LBJ were the worst, but Woodrow had a higher killed and wounded body count.
Indeed. Fed.gov and our banking/media/deep state elites are on autopilot.
Ping
Dunno.
There is FDR and LBJ.
Though FDR served under Wilson, and LBJ served under FDR!
fascinating to think about if we had stayed out of the war what would have happened. For some who think that providence drives history you could say WWI led to WWII which lead to the creation of Israel...but I’m just saying’...
What if - is nearly always a waste of time in my book.
1. The what if did not happen, ending with the actual history of the events.
2. What might have been i a form of speculation. and in no way can be certain of exactly how each of the variables would have gone, because to go one way or the other always depends on more factors than the speculators either entertain or know for certain how they would go.
These topics are good for writing historical fiction, and not a whole lot else.