Posted on 07/05/2010 4:27:19 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
You mean the Central Powers. The Axis was an alliance created by a pact between Germany and Italy in 1936, which Japan joined in 1940.
However, I am in agreement with you on your main point. If the US had stayed out of WWI, the conflict would likely have been settled by the Europeans themselves, as they had settled similar conflicts in the past.
By the way, many Irish-Americans were also unenthusiastic about participating in a war on behalf of their English oppressors. And most Americans were unhappy with the fact that Britain, France, Italy, Japan, and Belgium helped themselves to Gemran, Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman territory, engaging in the very "imperialism" of which they had accused Germany and its allies of practicing.
Right ~ CP, not AX.
-—as more than a few pointed until the Wilson malAdministration tried to shut them down-(with some success)-if we we were making the “world safe for democracy” how about making “democracy” safe in Ireland, India and Egypt for starters-—
To address your off-topic digression, I don’t think the United States should have backed either side in the Great War. The Kaiser was not trying to conquer the world. That war was essentially a European civil war in which America had no investment in either side winning.
Indeed, if it had ended in stalemate, likely there would have been no punitive Versailles terms, no crippled Germany, no Adolph Hitler and no Second World War — at least not in Europe anyway. Perhaps then without that devastating war, Europe wouldn’t have ended up so freaking wimpy.
[We probably would have ended up fighting the Japanese regardless.]
Back on-topic, I knew that the 16th Amendment opened the door to massive federal spending and indebtedness — as well as intrusion into our personal finances. I wasn’t aware of how significant the 17th Amendment was in creating the hugely centralized and increasingly arbitrary federal gov’t under which we suffer today.
Exactly they’d choose the same scumbags or worse.
I have a rat State Senator and a rat State Rep. No Republicans ever even run for the seats. Why the hell would I wanna give my right to pick my Senator to them?
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