So inciting Mexico to attack the USA was “neutral”? The Second Reich was quite imperialist.
Refusing to avenge the Lusitania is an act of weakness. George Washington warned us that the USA must be “at all times ready for war” when it comes knocking.
And France and Britain weren’t Imperialist?
There were ways to avenge the Lusitania that didn’t necessarily involve going to war.
“The Second Reich was quite imperialist.”
Your ignorance of WWI is breathtaking. Second Reich? Try the original was Rome, then the Holy Roman empire was second, then Hitler’s Reich.
And no, there was nothing to avenge with Lusitania. Just more British treachery and propaganda. And in WWI the Brits violated our neutrality every single day in numerous ways. The Germans didn’t.
Only the historically illiterate conflate WWI Germany with the Nazis of WWII. For one thing, the average German soldier in WWI had the right to vote for several decades. Most British soldiers, in the war to make the world safe for democracy, did not get that right until after the war.