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War Is the Health of the State—Wilson and World War I

Empire of Liberty: America's Foreign Entanglements from the Founders to the Forever Wars - Ep. 05 America’s entry into World War I was not a response to German aggression against the United States but a choice—influenced by British propaganda, financial entanglement, Wilsonian ideology, and the interests of those who would profit from war. This episode traces how neutrality eroded through $2.3 billion in Wall Street loans, how the Lusitania and Zimmermann Telegram provided pretexts for intervention, and how the dissenters who opposed war were silenced and destroyed. We examine Randolph Bourne’s insight that “war is the health of the state” and trace its manifestation in conscription, propaganda, censorship, and economic control. Finally, we confront the peace that failed—the Treaty of Versailles that planted the seeds of an even greater war—and ask whether American intervention served any purpose beyond the transformation of the republic into a warfare. #americanforeignpolicy #wwi #woodrowwilson #ushistory https://jeffkellick.substack.com/p/wa...