Re: Alexis de Tocqueville, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and Mahan (whatif?)

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Re: Alexis de Tocqueville, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and Mahan

Posted on: Fri, 26 May 2006 05:47:19 GMT

am05@hotmail.com wrote:

>> If Kaiser Willy avoids doing something dumb (difficult, I will admit)
>> and President Mahan is pushy enough,[1] might we see a US on the side
>> of Germany when *WWI (a high-probability event) breaks out?
>
>Only if UK would manage to do something stupid enough to alienate the
>American public. In OTL there was no reason for public sympathy in the
>US to go seriously one direction or another (I'd say, with a lot of Irish
>and Germans, there were serious reasons for a powerful anti-Brittish faction)
>but somehow the Germans managed to get reputation of the bad guys.

The Germans got the rep as the bad guys in WWI for two reasons; 1) the
sinking of Lusitania, and 2) much of the American upper class of the
era were decidely anglophilic. Prior to the sinking of Lusitania,
there was at least some public support for the Germans.

D.
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