Woodrow Wilson was insane to ever allow the United States to become involved in World War 1.
The Germans, the British, and the French were on the verge of an armistice, which would have ended the conflict in a draw.
There never would’ve been a punitive Treaty of Versailles, which begat Hitler, Stalin, the Holocaust, and the death of Europe.
Woodrow Wilson forever bears this burden of shame, for sending U.S. troops to die in the sodden trenches of France.
And the number of Americans killed and horribly wounded was all for nothing.
Britain should have stayed out of it. She had her Empire, and Germany’s navy could never match Britain’s.
Interesting!
Wilson was the single most destructive Potus in history, but I don’t think his entry, a wrong as it was, lengthened the fighting. After three years of slaughter how could the Allies or Central Powers just say “ Never mind.”?
Back in 1999 great debate raged about the Man of the Century...Churchill, John Paul II, Lenin. I always thought it was Gavril Princip. But suppose the Archduke’s car doesn’t make that turn in Princip’s sights. Does war find another spark?
History is filled with What ifs. Harry Turtledove and Robert Conroy made literary careers out of them. I have always thought the most interesting what if was what if the Christmas Truce had spread and lasted? Faced with refusal to fight by their armies might the leaders have said “ Enough “ and what kind of world would have follwed.