Oh, absolutely… Don’t get me wrong. I am not a World War I conspiracy theorist about the causes. It was pretty straightforward to me in retrospect that the only people that really wanted to go to war at that time were the Germans…France, Belgium, England, they weren’t really interested in going to war,
But the Germans were, they had a plan.
What made it all worse was all the entanglements and alliances (like NATO and SEATO) which insured that once one party was dragged in, everybody was dragged in except us.
And then we got dragged in later.
I blame all of the major powers for World War I.
Any of them could have stopped it at any time—by just refusing to fight.
The US had absolutely no business getting dragged into that quagmire—and with hindsight being twenty twenty we know the war accomplished nothing for anybody—except armaments manufacturers.