06-11-2015, 12:16 AM
(06-10-2015, 04:44 AM)StLucieBengal Wrote: I really like what you said here.... On wilson being a pacifist. Here is where Wilson went wrong Imo..... He was an academic, so he had theory to work from ... No real life expiernwce to apply... He also thought he knew best how people should live... And he thought he could fix people's lives by making decisions for them... That it would fix their problems. In doing that he was actually stealing their freedom. He did have the best intentions .... But so did hitler, lenin, and others.... And when you sell supplies to nations at war ships will be sunk especially when your sending supplies on commercial ships with civilian passengers. So they knew what they were doing .... He could have stayed out of it.... But he thought he was smart enough to fix the worlds problems with his theories.... Which is why he forced himself into the war by forcing russia to stay in the war as a condition on their loan instead of letting them pull out of WW1 to crush lenin's resistance. He didn't mean for lenin to come to power, but by forcing russia to stay in he gave Lenin the opening to do so....
Lenin was in exile for a lot of WWI. The Germans purposely brought him back to Russia because he was promising to get Russia out of war (which he did), freeing up Germany's eastern front. None of that had anything to do with Wilson.
However that being said another motive for Wilsons decision to join the allies was because he knew that if Germany won the war, We would lose millions of dollars in debt to us by our European allies.
