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To: neolib who wrote (122598)6/29/2005 4:49:47 PM
From: D. Long  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 793897
 
I suppose that a victorious Germany might still have allowed Europe to evolve into the present collection of democracies

A victorious Germany would have grabbed some territorial and exorbitant monetary concessions from defeated France and Britain, and went back home a few francs and colonies richer. It isn't like WWI was an existential struggle like WWII.

Derek



To: neolib who wrote (122598)6/30/2005 5:17:42 AM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793897
 
I take it you think otherwise?

I take it you're posing a counterfactual hypothesis, rather than arguing historical causation. That is to say, you are not arguing that democracy or the lack thereof had anything to do with WWI.

For example, one of the countries fighting Germany in WWI was Russia.

WWI was empire against empire. Whatever side the US took would be, by that fact, more democratic than the other, using your definition.


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