Comments on: Should America have entered World War I? https://www.isegoria.net/2017/04/should-america-have-entered-world-war-i/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 28 May 2026 23:08:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Cassander https://www.isegoria.net/2017/04/should-america-have-entered-world-war-i/comment-page-1/#comment-2550320 Cassander Sun, 09 Apr 2017 21:35:33 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=41737#comment-2550320 In 1917, the French army mutinies were put down largely by the French government and general staff going around promising that there wouldn’t be a major offensive until the Americans showed up. In the absence of the expectation of millions of doughboys arriving, those mutinies get a lot harder to deal with. Combined with the Russian revolution, the position of the Allies looks extremely shaky. A negotiated peace, or at least ceasefire, in 1917 was a very strong possibility if the US didn’t enter the war.

]]> By: Anon https://www.isegoria.net/2017/04/should-america-have-entered-world-war-i/comment-page-1/#comment-2550183 Anon Sun, 09 Apr 2017 03:12:20 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=41737#comment-2550183 The US still have troops in both Germany and Japan some 70+ years after the end of WWII. In addition the US guarantees the security of both Germany and Japan. Not to mention many, many other countries.

They have no reason to fight. American taxpayers are, for the most part, footing the bills to make sure they behave.

As expensive as that is, it is still considerably less expensive than having to go to war with them to make them behave. Germany and Japan feel they are getting a good deal. Hundreds of thousands of Americans, if not millions, are alive because they aren’t causing trouble any more.

Win-Win for all concerned.

]]> By: Lucklucky https://www.isegoria.net/2017/04/should-america-have-entered-world-war-i/comment-page-1/#comment-2550141 Lucklucky Sat, 08 Apr 2017 11:29:49 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=41737#comment-2550141 “If the Allies, led by France and Britain, had not won a total victory, there would have been no punitive peace treaty like that completed at Versailles, no stab-in-the-back allegations by resentful Germans, and thus no rise, much less triumph, of Hitler and the Nazis.”

And another indigent case of giving any pretext as a justification factor.

Maybe this guy should explain what was the “Versailles” that provoked the prosecution and later the murder of Jews in Holocaust and many other crimes…
Or maybe explain why Germany still not started the III World War, after all the II was much more punitive than the I…
Or Japan, or…

]]> By: Wan Wei Lin https://www.isegoria.net/2017/04/should-america-have-entered-world-war-i/comment-page-1/#comment-2550034 Wan Wei Lin Sat, 08 Apr 2017 02:15:11 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=41737#comment-2550034 Most mistakes of the US can be laid squarely at the feet of Democrats/Progressives: Slavery, KKK, segregation of Federal govt, entry into WW1, internment camps, dropping the atomic bombs, entry into Vietnam, escalation of Vietnam, catalyzing the Iranian revolution making Iran today’s terror hub and ignoring intelligence/opportunities pre-9/11. There’s more, but you get the idea.

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