How could the armistice after WW I have been any more unstable?
“How could the armistice after WW I have been any more unstable?”
The more interesting question is, “How could the end of the Great War have resulted in a more stable outcome if the US had stayed out?”
With a stalemate rather than the rout enabled by US intervention, the British Empire and the French would not have been in a position to carve up the Middle East and impose a punitive reparations regime on a prostrate German state and collapsing Austro-Hungarian empire, a settlement whose dire effects JM Keyenes accurately assessed in 1919.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economic_Consequences_of_the_Peace