[DiogenesLamp]

If we’d stayed out of the war until one side won, maybe WWII would have been the US-Japan conflict.

If we had stayed out of WWI, it is likely WWII would never have happened.

[sparklite2]

I don’t know. Japan’s scramble for iron, coal, oil, etc, made the attack on Pearl Harbor a necessity if they were going to control the South Pacific.

The Versailles treaty was the road map to WWII, and its vindictiveness came not at the hands of the US, but France.