re: Where would we be as a country if 9/11 didn’t happen and we didnt go to war?

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Not much different. A different conflict popped up a couple decades later that would have put us on our current trajectory, regardless of WW1 participation.

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How much of WW2's existence should be attributed to WW1? Without WW1, does WW2 happen?

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A better question would have been how would we be different if WW1 never happened at all.

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This is a great question. The Ottoman Empire likely crumbles (opening the door to Sharia law).

The Czarist government in Russia seemed doomed before WW1 (too many revolutionary agitators), however much of the Russian Revolution is born out of the military joining the Workers Movement. So if the military does not feel the immense strain of the Eastern front, do they turn on the Czar?

Austria Hungary likely becomes part of the new German nation state (either peacefully or not).

Germany really was the trigger man at the turn of the 20th century. Crazy to think about how things would look different if they didn't pre-empt the Western Front by invading Belgium.