Posted on 03/16/2022 2:41:56 PM PDT by george76
That’s right. Thank you.
Oops, brit ship, but left from US which is where it was stocked w/munitions (and passengers).
I’d credit Teddy Roosevelt w/ foisting “central planning” on the nation in a practical way. TR pushed the malicious idea that apolitical “experts” could solve any sort of problem, thus the plethora of “commissions” he sponsored and promoted.
Wilson federalized it.
Wilson’s worst legacy is the New Deal. It was his socialist WWI regime reincarnate.
Long, but effective summary.
Umm, they were at war with each other and we were not? The Brits blockading Germany was their war strategy; we on the other hand wanted freedom to navigate anywhere in the world without Germany sinking our ships since we were not at war with them.
*ping of interest*
I disagree on the part about his last AG, Mitchell Palmer. Palmer went balls-to-the-walls trying to purge legit pro-Soviet Communists, and he was nearly assassinated on the job.
“He wasn’t a good president...”
You have the gift of understatement. Wilson’s destruction of our constitutional republic continues to this day. Everything about Wilson should be burned to the ground or blown up.
“He wasn’t a good president...”
You have the gift of understatement. Wilson’s destruction of our constitutional republic continues to this day.
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You could say
” he had the TalyBiden touch , gold to crap in one chomo heartbeat “
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Bkmrk
The Doughboys brought the Kansas flu to Europe!
I'm predicting the benefit end/reduction/devaluation events to be catastrophic for Boomers who were counting on it!
I was assigned an essay on him as a sixth-grader. Even then I understood he was a poor president. He had what was probably a stroke and, ignoring the law of succession, his wife took over as acting president.
They were both scum bags.
If the demand that Germany curtail its U-Boats was unreasonable to begin with, and if the U.S. kept shipping supplies to the Allies, then it was reasonable for Germany to renege on its agreement.
Israel often bombs neighboring countries to disrupt supply chains to terrorists within Israel.
If such actions by Israel are purely defensive and justifiable, then so too similar actions by Germany, or any other nation.
The whole thing was freedom of the seas. How did the subs determine where ships were going; then too, there was that incident with the Lusitania. So basically it was those two incidents that brought the US into the war.
The New Deal was FDR.
Wilson’s 1912 platform was called “The New Freedom”. (Already promoting doublethink back then.) Certainly its expansion of federal government led to the New Deal, though.
Opus?
Furthermore, the German consulate in NYC had taken out full page newspaper ads, warning people that ships were fair game.
What about the telegram to Mexico from Germany offering Texas if the Kaiser won WWI?
The Kaiser was as dumb as Biden. Even his own Generals knew he didn’t have a full deck.
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