That runs against your point that Wilson pushed for democracy via force, that, in some large and serious sense, that could be understood as a part of Wilsonian doctrine.
Hardly.. it is the primary argument for the belief that Wilson sought to alter the political system in Imperial Germany.
Were he REALLY not inclined to alter that government (the approach that the UN asserted with regard to Iraq), he would have not implicitly asked which portion of the Imperial German government we should recognize for the purpose of peace talks. The weak, but popularly elected, Reichstag, or the privileged Bundesrat, which represented the royal elites, the German princes and individual principalities, as well as the imperial rule of the Kaiser himself.
Were Wilson unwilling to alter the political status of Imperial Germany, he would have had NO REASON to question which portion of the German government he needed to recognize... He would merely have dealt with it as it then existed, through the Bundesrat, as well as the Imperial Court.
I have never been a college professor John.. But even I can extrapolate that much information from that article..
Does that alter your perspective now about what Wilson was trying to achieve, without blatantly announcing his policies were such??
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