Posted on 08/16/2021 10:15:11 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Ping!
Goes all the way back to stupidly getting into WWI.
We are witnessing the end-days of American Progressivism. First abroad, then at home.
Sure; just let the Kaiser have his way, particularly with respect to forming “a United States of Europe against America”.
Blah Blah Blah, what was so great about England and France, who still had colonies in OUR Hemisphere, unlike Germany.
Ya think?
You need to stop listening to the revisionist liberals. As well as using red herrings.
It was the Kaiser, BTW, that was trying to induce Britain and France to violate the Monroe Doctrine with respect to said colonies.
German war plans against the US, as in the case of war plans that every country makes, were purely hypothetical and not seriously considered.
LOL, sure. Just like they left the Lusitania alone and socialist Wilson left it unavenged for three years.
The Kaiser’s regime was state socialism, as instituted by Bismarck. You’re very defensive of that regime . . . and on a thread about someone who has shown an affinity for its descendant regimes . . .
Was the Kaiser’s Germany any less State Socialist than France or Britain.
And did the Kaiser’s Germany commit the atrocities in Africa that the Belgians did?
There were no saints in Europe, and we were wrong to get into the fight.
We never should have allowed our ships to go to England while they had their crippling Naval Blockade on Germany. A “True” Neutral would have told Britain, that we would not risk our shipping unless they stopped their naval blockade of Germany. But we were never really “neutral” were we?
The UK was not near socialism until Labour got into power after WWII ended. Certainly post-Victorian UK was not socialist, although like most of the “West” they were beset with socialist agitators and sympathizers in high places.
Why the continued defense of the Kaiser?
Sure, just cower before the German imperial navy.
Oh please, Germany was never a threat to the US.
Furthermore, Britain should have stayed out of it, too.
LOL! A zillion threats out of the Kaiser and the sinking of ships and they were “no threat”.
I daresay that a president like George Washington would have crushed the Kaiser’s regime by 1916.
"American progressivism" = leftism. And leftism never goes quietly into the night, it goes leaving a trail of bleeding bodies and broken lives behind it.
We deserved it in other words?
The libertarian conceit that everyone will act like rational economic agents if we don't "meddle" is simply utter nonsense. We will be attacked by some parties for the same reason mountain climbers climb mountains: because they can.
Neither Stalin nor Hitler nor bin Laden gave a rat's ass about the final cost of victory or whether it passed a rational cost/benefit test.
Well, as the song goes:
Once all the Germans were warlike and mean
But that couldn’t happen again
We taught them a lesson in 1918
And they’ve hardly bothered us since then
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