Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-10975360-20131129121937/@comment-98.234.4.203-20140604165025

what if germany had not provoked the u.s. into entering  the war? without american reinforcements to stop the german offensive in 1918 and with a previous end to the war with russia per brest-litovsk, the post-war world would have largely dispensed with three major "-ism's"--nazism, bolshevism (truncated by german control of the ukraine and belarus), and zionism. while the kaiser was not a jeffersonian democrat, the worst excesses of hitler would have spared millions of lives in europe.