[hanamizu]

Much as I despise Wilson, he knew that he could not ignore the real threat that the public wanted to deal with...

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I’m not saying that there weren’t real reasons for us to enter WWI, but our entrance did abrogate the half of the Monroe Doctrine that most have never heard of. It was sort of a quid pro quo...you don’t mess with ‘our’ continent and we won’t mess with yours.

Europe often had good reasons for interfering with the independent American nations, usually debt, but that didn’t stop us from warning them off.

[Olog-hai]

Europe (Germany) have/had “good reasons” for any of its foreign policy decisions? Come on. And it was they that challenged and breached the doctrine, long before the US actually responded