Enough draft resistance that they made creepy patriotic songs.
The Kaiser opposed the war.
Enough draft resistance that they made creepy patriotic songs.
The problem was Britain getting involved, instead of just focusing on Her Empire, once she got into the fray, it was only a matter of time before the US would get dragged into it.
The US and Britain would have both been better of had they not gotten involved in WWI. So what if France fell to the Germans, what was so great about France, anyway?
Atrocious waste of white Christian life
In Europe it was often called “the cousin’s war,” basically a family squabble on a global scale. The Kings of England, Germany, Russia, Denmark, Spain, Greece, Norway and Romania (or their spouses) all were related by blood. George V, Wilhelm II and Alexander II all were grandsons of Queen Victoria (AKA the grandmother to Europe).
(Globalist and messianic progressive) Woodrow Wilson’s chief interest in getting the US involved was so we could win a seat at the head of the world table, which would give him leverage to coerce countries to join his League of Nations. This was why he ordered Pershing never to let American soldiers/Marines fight under a European commander, and why all news reports were censored to redact the names of individual soldiers. WW wanted all the glory going to the “Big A” army rather than the men who fought to earn it. He wanted to make it clear that it wasn’t the American fighting men who decided the outcome of the war, it was the American military.
If the allies lost WWI, there would almost certainly have been something like fascism or communism or military dictatorship in Italy, and probably in France.
And, wait a minute, there was already Bolshevism in Russia by 1917, would it have gone away like it never happened?
Rising East European nationalism was largely a result of Wilson's pushing for new countries in the region.
That wouldn't have happened had Germany won, and in any case, the rising wave of Eastern European nationalism after WWI in our own timeline did nothing to weaken Germany's grasp on the region.
If we hadn't interfered, Germany would have quite a grip on Europe and somebody like Mike Konrad would be writing a very similar article attacking Wilson for standing by and doing nothing.
I'm not saying intervention was the right choice, but you can never know whether or not the other choice would have been worse or as bad -- and even if it the other way couldn't possibly have been as bad as what happened in our own history, nobody living in that alternative universe would know that.
Ping. Here is someone making the same point I have attempted to make with you. US entry into the war triggered massive bloodshed that would have been avoided had we stayed out of it.
Bump from the grandson of a fellow who help build subs against the Kaiser at the Phila. Navy Yard