Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread

[Pocket]

We were both guys in the Civil War; that's why it was a civil war.

And World War I was just a huge dick-waving contest between rulers who were hopelessly out of touch about the realities of modern warfare, and who adopted a good-guy-bad-guy narrative after the fact. We would have stayed out of it if one of those rulers hadn't made the dumb mistake of waving their dick at us. The narrative that there were good guys and bad guys was made up after the fact by the side that happened to win, as is often the case.

 

[Axaday]

We were both guys in the Civil War; that's why it was a civil war.

And World War I was just a huge dick-waving contest between rulers who were hopelessly out of touch about the realities of modern warfare, and who adopted a good-guy-bad-guy narrative after the fact. We would have stayed out of it if one of those rulers hadn't made the dumb mistake of waving their dick at us. The narrative that there were good guys and bad guys was made up after the fact by the side that happened to win, as is often the case.

I get that take. Still, didn't the US enter to help our better friends?

 

[Pocket]

We entered because we caught Germany sending a telegram to Mexico saying "Hey, come fight on our side and if we win, we'll do a victory lap around the US and win you back the land they just took from you." I don't think we particularly cared about anyone on the other side of the pond at that point.