[Olog-hai]

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.

[dfwgator]

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

[Verginius Rufus]

Conditions of warfare in 1916 were much different from the 18th century so I don't think there is any way to say how George Washington would have dealt with the Kaiser. But given how he declared American neutrality when France and England were at war, my guess is that he would have done his best to keep us neutral.

I admire George Washington greatly, but it did take him 6 years to defeat Britain, when Great Britain had no allies. Germany in World War I had not only Austria-Hungary and Turkey as allies, but also Bulgaria. How would the American Revolution have turned out if the British had had Bulgaria as an ally in that war?