WWI Anniversary: 100 Years Of 'Making World Safe For Democracy'

[Brian4Liberty]

WWI Anniversary: 100 Years Of 'Making World Safe For Democracy' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1t2QZUP_70)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1t2QZUP_70


One hundred years ago today, President Woodrow Wilson, who was elected on his antiwar slogans, asked a joint House-Senate session for a declaration of war on Germany. His war has launched endless wars ever since...and only made the world safe for the emergence of Hitler, Mussolini, and Lenin.

[PierzStyx]

Even the freaking new York Times is printing pieces about how idiotic American involvement in WWI was and how disastrous it has been for history.


"But attention should be paid. America’s decision to join the Allies was a turning point in world history. It altered the fortunes of the war and the course of the 20th century — and not necessarily for the better. Its entry most likely foreclosed the possibility of a negotiated peace among belligerent powers that were exhausted from years mired in trench warfare.

Although the American Expeditionary Force did not engage in combat for long, the looming threat of several million fresh troops led German generals to launch a last, desperate series of offensives. When that campaign collapsed, Germany’s defeat was inevitable.


How would the war have ended if America had not intervened? The carnage might have continued for another year or two until citizens in the warring nations, who were already protesting the endless sacrifices required, forced their leaders to reach a settlement. 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. The next world war, with its 50 million deaths, would probably not have occurred.

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Once the United States did enter the fray, Wilson, with the aid of the courts, prosecuted opponents of the war who refused to fall in line. Under the Espionage and Sedition Acts, thousands were arrested for such “crimes” as giving speeches against the draft and calling the Army “a God damned legalized murder machine.”

The intervention led to big changes in America, as well as the world. It began the creation of a political order most citizens now take for granted, even as some protest against it: a state equipped to fight war after war abroad while keeping a close watch on allegedly subversive activities at home.

The identity of the nation’s enemies has changed often over the past century. But at least until Donald Trump took office, the larger aim of American foreign policy under both liberal and conservative presidents had remained much the same: to make the world “safe for democracy,” as our leaders define it. To achieve that purpose required another innovation of World War I: a military-industrial establishment funded, then partly and now completely, by income taxes."


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/06/opinion/should-america-have-entered-world-war-i.html?_r=0

[Galileo Galilei]

Woodrow Wilson has really dropped in presidential ratings over the past 20 years.

[merkelstan]

AUDIO/VIDEO

https://mises.org/blog/ralph-raico-lecture-world-war-i Ralph Raico - 1983 lectur on WWI
https://mises.org/library/why-did-america-get-world-war-i Rothbard
https://mises.org/library/world-war-i-end-civilization Hoppe "World War I as the End of Civilization"
https://mises.org/library/world-war-i-failure-state-elites Ralph Raico - "World War 1: A Failure of State Elites"
https://mises.org/library/11-woodrow-wilson-and-world-war-i Murray N. Rothbard - "Woodrow Wilson and World War I"


READING

https://mises.org/library/prelude-world-war-i Ralph Raico "Prelude to World War I"
https://mises.org/library/why-world-war-i-ralph-raico Ralph Raico "The Why of World War I"
https://mises.org/library/world-war-i-fulfillment-power-and-intellectuals-2 Murray N. Rothbard - "World War I as Fulfilment: Power and the Intellectuals"
https://mises.org/library/world-war-one-and-end-bourgeois-century Ryan McMaken "World War One and the end of the Bourgeois Century"
https://mises.org/library/world-war-i-home-front Ralph Raico "World War I on the Home Front"
https://mises.org/library/world-war-i-our-minds-historical-view T. Hunt Tooley "World War I in Our Minds: A Historical View"
https://mises.org/blog/1917-early-moves-toward-american-intervention-world-war-i T. Hunt Tooley - "1917: Early Moves Toward American Intervention in World War I"

One of the least cited reasons for WWI was the german Berlin-Baghdad railway pioneered by Heinrich august Meissner.... and then there was the growth of German industry around 1910, which the British saw as an existential threat... so many threads... so much to learn..

[AZJoe]

IT was on April 6, 1917 that the US entered into World War I, preventing the peace options, and setting up the dominoes that caused WWII. Exactly 100 years later ...

https://i2.wp.com/thegrio.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Trump-Wilson.jpg?fit=650%2C366

[AZJoe]

"America should have minded her own business and stayed out of the World War[I]. If you hadn't entered the war the Allies would have made peace with Germany in the Spring of 1917. Had we made peace then there would have been no collapse in Russia followed by Communism, no breakdown in Italy followed by Fascism, and Germany would not have signed the Versailles Treaty, which has enthroned Nazism in Germany.If America had stayed out of the war, all these 'isms' wouldn't today be sweeping the continent of Europe and breaking down parliamentary government - and if England had made peace early in 1917, it would have saved over one million British, French, American, and other lives." - Winston Churchill, 1936.

[osan]

"America should have minded her own business and stayed out of the World War[I]. If you hadn't entered the war the Allies would have made peace with Germany in the Spring of 1917. Had we made peace then there would have been no collapse in Russia followed by Communism, no breakdown in Italy followed by Fascism, and Germany would not have signed the Versailles Treaty, which has enthroned Nazism in Germany.If America had stayed out of the war, all these 'isms' wouldn't today be sweeping the continent of Europe and breaking down parliamentary government - and if England had made peace early in 1917, it would have saved over one million British, French, American, and other lives." - Winston Churchill, 1936.

Sure. But the root of the blame rests with Churchill's band of scummy perverts. Without their solicitations, including hanging the Lusitania out like bait, America would likely have kept out of it. The British are the single greatest muck rakers the world has ever seen. Had we any sense at all, we would have fed them to Hitler. It is one genocide by which the rest of the world would have profited greatly.

The twentieth century was an unmitigated disaster from every political perspective, save perhaps Theire's. I am fairly certain Theye are extremely happy with the result.

[AZJoe]

Colonel Wilkerson with a reality check

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah14yOHWrGY

[AZJoe]

Bolivia Blasts Washington at UN Security Council: Its Colin Powell 2.0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAmv0zO5sfw

[timosman]

Neocons asses are being handed to them on a golden plate. Will this discourage them? Maybe?:confused:

[heavenlyboy34]

Sure. But the root of the blame rests with Churchill's band of scummy perverts. Without their solicitations, including hanging the Lusitania out like bait, America would likely have kept out of it. The British are the single greatest muck rakers the world has ever seen. Had we any sense at all, we would have fed them to Hitler. It is one genocide by which the rest of the world would have profited greatly.

The twentieth century was an unmitigated disaster from every political perspective, save perhaps Theire's. I am fairly certain Theye are extremely happy with the result.
This^^ Muricans were quite against foreign entanglements a century ago. Churchill was a fanboy of them as well as a general sociopath and horrible, evil person. Ask an honest Brit (as I have) and he'll tell you the same.

But IDK if staying out of WWI would've prevented what happened in Russia, 1917. Revolution had already begun its early stages by 1905. (though that one was of course too small and squelched by the czar-but you get the drift)

I can say without a doubt that WWII made the world safe for Soviet communism and the brutality that came with it, though.