[DanZ]

Serbia SHOULD have given up Princip. The Czar should not have honored the pact with Serbia given this outrageous act. If a Volgan German had assassinated the Czar and fled to Germany, would the Russian acted any differently than the Austro-Hungarians?

And the Germans should not have sent Vladimir Ilich Lenin in a closed train to Russia, and Roosevelt should not have given Eastern Europe to the Commies

Life goes on

[bray]

America had no choice, Britain was exhausted from war and we still had to fight the Japanese alone. Roosevelt was on his death bed and America could not fight two wars.

[Alas Babylon!]

Yes, but sending Lenin had the purpose of knocking the Russian Empire OUT of the war. That was stupid too but it did have a war aim.

The stupid part was starting the war because of a treaty where your treaty partner’s enemy has mobilized—short of war—so you jump in without considering the actual events that led to the decision in the first place.

The Russians really did start it in their unreasonable support of Serbia over this particular issue. The rest just fell into it without considering the terrible consequences.