A Republic, Not an Empire by Patrick J. Buchanan

Author:Patrick J. Buchanan
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Published: 2013-01-22T05:00:00+00:00

“We must regain our power,” said General Hans von Seeckt, who would take command of the German army, “and as soon as we do, we will naturally take back everything we lost.”70

THE COSTS OF INTERVENTION

No one can say for certain how history would have unfolded had America stayed out of the Great War. Russia, whose tsar abdicated only weeks before U.S. entry, would still have collapsed. The same German divisions would have been released to the west, where the French army was in mutiny. Without the U.S. government becoming the lender of last resort to finance the war effort, with no prospect of millions of American troops pouring into the trenches, the Allies would probably have been forced to negotiate an armistice or sue for peace. The kaiser’s army, bloodied but undefeated, would have gone home. Germany would have become a fire wall against any drive into Central Europe by a Soviet Russia diminished by Brest-Litovsk. As the character of the Bolshevik regime revealed itself, Germany would surely have considered going back to correct the blunder of having transported Lenin through German lines in the infamous sealed train. Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, and the whole grisly gang might have been hung from the lampposts of Petrograd. A strong, united, and prosperous Germany would not have spawned a Hitler. There might have been no Holocaust, no quarter-century reign of Stalin, no Cold War. Had America stayed out, there would have been no Versailles, no occupation and dismemberment of the German nation, no American war dead, no debt, no era of disillusionment. Had America not financed the war, it would surely have ended earlier than it did, with far fewer dead. “For of all sad words of tongue or pen,/The saddest are these: ‘It might have been!’”71

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