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To: dfwgator

We had no business getting involved in WWI!
I even think the British should have stayed out of it. It should have remained to be “another damn fool thing in the Balkans “.


12 posted on 04/02/2024 7:53:27 AM PDT by Reily (!!)
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To: Reily
We had no business getting involved in WWI!

Britain and France owed us a couple billion dollars of armaments etc. in 1917 (a lot of money back then), and as Russia turned commie and left the war, it became likely that Germany and the Austro-Hungarians would win the war, take over western Europe, leave us broke, and then establish hegemony over the Atlantic, ruining all Atlantic trading and leaving us with only the Japanese as allies. The Germans offering the Mexicans Arizona was just a happy accident, making it easier to convince Americans to enter the war.

16 posted on 04/02/2024 8:13:36 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Reily

It was France’s alliance with Russia that caused WWI to blow up.

It should have just been between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia.


18 posted on 04/02/2024 8:20:22 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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