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To: arrogantsob
It is hard to believe that America would have benefited in ANY way from a German victory.
If America had stayed out of the war there wouldn't have been a German victory. There would have been a stalemate and a negotiated settlement that didn't include a destructive "peace" leading to the rise of Hitler.
126 posted on 04/24/2011 3:04:49 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: samtheman

Not so true, the new German Stormtrooper tactics and the 1 million men freed up from the east probably would have broke the French without the new US troops arriving.

1918 is sometimes described as a race between the redeploying german forces and the arriving US forces...

[Note: The Stormtrooper inflitration tactics combined with armor and air are the origins of the WWII Blitzkrieg tactics.]


134 posted on 04/24/2011 3:29:58 AM PDT by DJ Elliott (Montrose Toast Blog)
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To: samtheman

“If America had stayed out of the war there wouldn’t have been a German victory.”

Russia had surrendered; how would Britain & France deal with the German, Austro-Hungarian, Bulgarian, & Turkish troops that released? Victory had become impossible for the Triple Entente; France & Italy were on the verge of collapse.


146 posted on 04/24/2011 5:20:01 AM PDT by kearnyirish2
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To: samtheman

Round two would have commenced as soon as Germany recovered and even stalemate would have left it more powerful than before the war relative to France and Britain.

We can’t say for sure what would have happened had we not entered but given the fact that Germany was a nation on the rise for the fifty years prior to the war and Britain had begun a slow decline betting on Britain was a losing proposition. Austro-Hungary would have offered no resistance to increased German power in central Europe either.

As I said it is hard to believe that America would have benefited in ANY way from a German victory. Even if that victory had been delayed a decade or so. I have seen nothing that makes me think that an increase in the power of the German Army at that time would be desirable for the world.


213 posted on 04/24/2011 8:21:27 PM PDT by arrogantsob
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