Given that Germany didn’t exist until 1870, that’s not much of a constant. Germany was doing much of the agitation for formation of alliances up until the 1890s, because of Bismarck’s fear of a war on two fronts. Germany wanted desperately to get together with Britain, but after the commitment to beefing up the German Empire and the inevitable naval race that this led to, that became impossible.
ben
puffington:
My point was that the populace, at large, did not disapprove of any of the actions of Wilson that we find heinous: the general populace was not offended by the resegregation of the Federal government; the general populace was not upset by the Palmer raids and in the Harding administration there were further restrictions placed on immigration; the general populace looked on the Caribbean Basin “interventions” as either our right or our responsibility and those policies continued without protest under Harding.
I agree with you that Wilson’s policies were ill-considered and unfair. I simply find no reason to think that the country, as a whole, rejected those policies.
Tom~
[[“However, in many paranoid ways, the U.S.S.R. reacted to different situations not because of ideology or expansionist goals, but because they had already been invaded by “the West” once, and they never believed that it would not happen again.”
With good reason, since they were invaded again in 1942.]]
“You wouldn’t have had much fun in Stalingrad, eh, Mr. Hilter?”
Heck, the Russians probably still were remembering being invaded by Bonaparte.