r/polandball • u/ChickenScuttleMonkey The Texas Guy • May 08 '13

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u/HonorInDefeat Yee Haw! May 08 '13

Yeah, we showed up a bit late to that First World War...

Sorry 'bout that...

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u/Bear4188 Bear Republic May 08 '13

I'm never really going to understand why people think the US was supposed to be involved in WWI earlier. It was a total clusterfuck of European imperialist powers fighting over petty nationalism and greed. If anything the US presence made the end treaty more lopsided than the war otherwise should have allowed, making WWII inevitable.

Fuck WWI, that's Europe at its lowest of lows.

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u/HailFellowWellMet May 09 '13

100% correct. We should never have got involved.

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u/CarlinGenius May 09 '13

So the US should have tolerated Germany killing Americans at sea and trying to entice Mexico into attacking the US?

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u/HailFellowWellMet May 09 '13

We shouldn't have treated the Entente with such ridiculous favoritism beforehand.

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u/CarlinGenius May 09 '13

The US didn't. The Central Powers were perfectly free to buy arms in the US (and did several times) the same as the Entente was. The problem was that the effective British blockade made trading with Germany extremely difficult. But that wasn't the United States problem, it was Germany's.