Comments by "SkyRiver" (@SkyRiver1) on "Europe Goes Nuclear: Is America Leaving NATO? || Peter Zeihan" video.
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It was not American isolationism that lead to it's involvement in WW1. Much the contrary.
Entering WW1 was the stupidest thing that the USA ever did. When Russia collapsed and the revolutionaries signed a treaty with the Central Powers it freed up a million German soldiers to move to the western front.
And admit it or not the soviets were now backing Germany.
When this happened if the USA had not entered the war due to the subconscious manipulation of the American public via Edward Bernays Council on Foreign Relations using techniques he based on the unpublished works of his uncle Sigmund Freud, a public that was almost totally against the war became a public that cried for vengeance, even hung a few German Americans in the streets.
If the USA had not entered the war at that point the Central Powers would have won.
Had we stayed out of it, there would have been no Hitler, no WW2, no vast genocides of Jews, the disabled, gypsies, and various other scapegoat groups, no Soviet superpower, and no loss of over a hundred thousand American boys in a war the nation really had no stake in. AND the end game would have been more or less what we have in Europe today. (Remember the Germany of the time was not a Nazi Nation run by a madman but a constitutional monarchy in which political parties were limited to the legislative arena. And there is much speculation that the real reason for the insane mobilization that took place was the work on the construction of a German railroad from Central Europe into the oil fields of the Middle East, which the British controlled.
On the other hand there are those Americans who benefited greatly from the war at the time. By the end of 1918, American factories had produced 3.5 million rifles, 20 million artillery rounds, 633 million pounds of smokeless gunpowder, 376 million pounds of high explosives, 21,000 airplane engines, and large amounts of poison gas.
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Entering WW1 was the stupidest thing that the USA ever did. When Russia collapsed and the revolutionaries signed a treaty with the Central Powers it freed up a million German soldiers to move to the western front.
And admit it or not the soviets were now backing Germany.
When this happened if the USA had not entered the war due to the subconscious manipulation of the American public via Edward Bernays Council on Foreign Relations, a public that was almost totally against the war became a public that cried for vengeance, even hung a few German Americans in the streets.
If the USA had not entered the war at that point the Central Powers would have won.
Had we stayed out of it, there would have been no Hitler, no WW2, no vast genocides of Jews, the disabled, gypsies, and various other scapegoat groups, no Soviet superpower, and no loss of over a hundred thousand American boys in a war the nation really had no stake in. AND the end game would have been more or less what we have in Europe today. (Remember the Germany of the time was not a Nazi Nation run by a madman but a constitutional monarchy in which political parties were limited to the legislative arena. And there is much speculation that the real reason for the insane mobilization that took place was the work on the construction of a German railroad from Central Europe into the oil fields of the Middle East, which the British controlled.
On the other hand there are those Americans who benefited greatly from the war at the time. By the end of 1918, American factories had produced 3.5 million rifles, 20 million artillery rounds, 633 million pounds of smokeless gunpowder, 376 million pounds of high explosives, 21,000 airplane engines, and large amounts of poison gas.
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