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re: WW1 history buffs: Good book for the library
Posted on 4/10/14 at 8:40 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
Posted on 4/10/14 at 8:40 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
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the world would be a better place today if Imperial Germany had won the war.
Interesting. One wonders how America would have matured without the void created by a weakened Europe.
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Posted on 4/10/14 at 10:09 pm to weagle99
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Interesting. One wonders how America would have matured without the void created by a weakened Europe.
It's interesting to think about, but I tend to believe it would largely happen the same way. A victorious imperial Germany would have eventually clashed with Britain which probably would have drug the United States into the war. And no matter how economically powerful Germany was at that point, it would not have the capability to match American industry in a total war. What the US produced from 1939-45 is nothing short of astounding.
And that's not even taking into consideration the Japanese and Russia/the USSR. Who knows how that would have played out.
Posted on 4/10/14 at 11:08 pm to weagle99
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Interesting. One wonders how America would have matured without the void created by a weakened Europe.
I think America would have almost certainly remained a neutral country. Which meant we would be free to sell arms and materiel to any potential combatant.
Remember, prior to WWI, America had followed George Washington's parting advice to avoid foreign entanglements.
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The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop.
Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combination and collisions of her friendships or enmities.
Washington's
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1796
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