Reddit reviews Wilson's War: How Woodrow Wilson's Great Blunder Led to Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, and World War II

> there will be tons of responses about necessity of "american interventionism because, like, without it the Hitler would have won"

Just point out that without it there also wouldn't have been a Hitler in the first place.

Wilson's War: How Woodrow Wilson's Great Blunder Led to Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, and World War II

If I had a time machine I wouldn't kill Hitler.

I'd kill Wilson.

Good God, how can you be a student of US history and yet be entirely unfamiliar with the "America First Committee" or Robert Taft and the "old right" Republicans?

>The Old Right was a conservative faction in the United States that opposed both New Deal domestic programs and U.S. entry into World War II. Many members of this faction were associated with the Republicans of the interwar years led by Robert Taft, but some were Democrats. They were called the "Old Right" to distinguish them from their New Right successors, such as Barry Goldwater, who favored an interventionist foreign policy to battle international communism. Many members of the Old Right favored laissez faire classical liberalism; some were business-oriented conservatives; others were ex-radicals who moved sharply to the right, like John Dos Passos; still others, like the Southern Agrarians, were traditionalists who dreamed of restoring a premodern communal society.

Likewise there was significant "old right" GOP opposition to the US being involved in both WWI (known then as the "Great War"):

>Leading up to 1917 and the declaration of war against Germany, the labor unions, socialists, members of the Old Right, and pacifist groups in the United States publicly opposed participation [i.e. US entry into what was until then just another "European War"], the obvious motive for the 1916 Preparedness Day Bombing stemming from this. When Woodrow Wilson ran for reelection in 1916 on the slogan "He Kept Us Out of War", he received support from these groups [...]

After which Wilson promptly "flipped" on his campaign promises and pushed for War (hence WWI was named derogatorily by many as "Wilson's War").

If I thought they had been in the war the whole time, how would there had been a stalemate already? And not getting us into war is not the same thing as keeping us out of it. The public had zero desire to go war. You’re just trying to make up gotchas. I’m not making any of this up. I got it from a book.


Wilson's War: How Woodrow Wilson's Great Blunder Led to Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, and World War II https://www.amazon.com/dp/1400082366/