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The First World war had not been fought?
If it was fought, the US had stayed out and Germany had won in Europe?
I think our lives would be completely different with a LOT more personal freedom with much less Federal Government. We would have prosperous Citizen centered States, lower taxes and a half-starved Federal Government that served the Common Good by keeping out of States Rights while protecting individual rights and our Nations shores.
What say you???
If it was fought, the US had stayed out and Germany had won in Europe?
I think our lives would be completely different with a LOT more personal freedom with much less Federal Government. We would have prosperous Citizen centered States, lower taxes and a half-starved Federal Government that served the Common Good by keeping out of States Rights while protecting individual rights and our Nations shores.
What say you???
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The south didn't have the means or know how to beat the north
Eventually the Soviet Union and Europe would have gone to war, probably about 1926, as Lenin and Stalin wanted Europe. The Soviets would have lost. [;)]
The US could have sat that one out.
All of the millions who were killed would have lived and populated several more millions in proceeding generations. Our world population would be at a brink state by now.
Times would sure be different and most country's including the US would have had different leaders for such times. Perhaps Joe Kennedy Jr. would have run for president instead of his younger brother, had he not died in the war.
Lots and lots of speculation can be made for all of the what if's.
It is and always will be what it is.
There would be NO Indian Casino's to play in!
We will never know.
The thinking folks have a pretty good idea.
Israel would probably not exist as there would have been no Holocaust.
how about IF the south had won[^]
I think the bigger question here is how might we solve the social chasm among the people that we have faced, on and off, since the Revolutionary War, in order to better control the two great evils that we have in agenda ridden politicians and hateful activists, that manipulate public thought and actions. That said, had the South won, I do believe that slavery would have ended like it had done around the world since ancient times, i.e. without a war, and sparing us the greatest bloodbath our country has ever known.
If the USA had not entered WWI it would have ended in a stalemate. Hitler would have never come to power in Germany. I'm not sure if the Communist would have ever come to power in Russia.
The war and the Russian Revolution of 1917 had forced the Tsar to withdraw Russia from the conflict. Marxist Russian sailors aboard the Battleship Potemkin mutinied and the Bolsheviks started open warfare in the streets.
Few Americas are aware that we, among others invaded the Soviet Union. Stalin and Khrushchev never forgot it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Expeditionary_Force,_North_Russia
One thing for sure is there would have been at lot more people.
You figure:
70-100 million died of Spanish Flu
20 Million died fighting
Then the aftermath of killing up to 1926 or so is another 10 million maybe, things like the Turks killing off the Armenians and purges in Russia and Africa.
So you are looking at 130 Million people dead due to WW1. Of course people would have dies of normal stuff but not at that rate.
The World would have been a very different place.
how about IF the south had won[^]
We'd have white slaves, indentured to their masters. OH, wait, we have those now and their masters are banks and credit card companies.[:D]
The First World war had not been fought?
If it was fought, the US had stayed out and Germany had won in Europe?
I think our lives would be completely different with a LOT more personal freedom with much less Federal Government. We would have prosperous Citizen centered States, lower taxes and a half-starved Federal Government that served the Common Good by keeping out of States Rights while protecting individual rights and our Nations shores.
What say you???
I'm not sure what makes you think the government wouldn't butt into state's rights eventually anyway. The direct popular election of US Senators was a huge blow to states' rights.