WWI was a Gentlmens war that got out of hand. It was entirely caused by a feud in 'The' Royal Family and by the leaders of the countries at the time refusing to back out of treaties that compelled countries to declare war for trivial transgressions. I don't believe the USA was ever asked to get involved, at the time the USA could have been successfully crushed by either the French, German, Russian or British Armies (Britain at the time was about a third of the populated world).
As for WWII, had the USA got involved when the problem looked like it was getting out of hand (when Britain joined), then most of Europe would not have been invaded by the Nazi's and hence occupied by the USSR for most of the last Century. The cold was was a direct cause of USA inaction. Even when the USA did get involved the arrogance of its generals cost thousands of lives in the Atlantic because they refused to believe British Intelligence and Experience. Then after the war Britain paid for the whole experience. USA lives may have been given, but every bullet fired was paid for out of British assets after the war.
As for Suez, if an American company spent billions of dollars building something for a foreign power to say, good bye, we're nationalising that, I would give it days before the US started throwing its weight around. It is purely self interest that lead the USA to dump its two allies in the first place. If anything lead to France wishing to oppose the US today its the Suez incident.
As for the French, remember the Falklands. All the UK sea losses were due to Exocet missiles, that were supplied by the French, but at the sart of war, not fitted to the Argentinian Mirrage Jets (again supplied by the French). After the war began they agreed not to continue to help the Argentinians, but amazingly the Argentinians managed to fit their missiles and callibrate them properly (an impossible task without trained French technicians).
The only bad boy in all this is France, but don't think for a second that the US is all holy and white. It looks out for its own self interest with no thought about the consequences every single time. Its just a mercinary bullying force with its own back pocket firmly in charge.
When Tibet got invaded by China howmany US troops went to help then? As the British Empire fell appart and the Commonwealth was formed, howmany petty dictators did the CIA assist in the brutalisation of their population.
Just think how different the world would be if Britain hadn't been at war with France and Spain in the 1700s. The USA might have a culture of responsibility for its actions like Canada and Australia instead of pretending it can solve everything with little men in tanks.
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WWI was a Gentlmens war that got out of hand. It was entirely caused by a feud in 'The' Royal Family and by the leaders of the countries at the time refusing to back out of treaties that compelled countries to declare war for trivial transgressions. I don't believe the USA was ever asked to get involved, at the time the USA could have been successfully crushed by either the French, German, Russian or British Armies (Britain at the time was about a third of the populated world). As for WWII, had the USA got involved when the problem looked like it was getting out of hand (when Britain joined), then most of Europe would not have been invaded by the Nazi's and hence occupied by the USSR for most of the last Century. The cold was was a direct cause of USA inaction. Even when the USA did get involved the arrogance of its generals cost thousands of lives in the Atlantic because they refused to believe British Intelligence and Experience. Then after the war Britain paid for the whole experience. USA lives may have been given, but every bullet fired was paid for out of British assets after the war. As for Suez, if an American company spent billions of dollars building something for a foreign power to say, good bye, we're nationalising that, I would give it days before the US started throwing its weight around. It is purely self interest that lead the USA to dump its two allies in the first place. If anything lead to France wishing to oppose the US today its the Suez incident. As for the French, remember the Falklands. All the UK sea losses were due to Exocet missiles, that were supplied by the French, but at the sart of war, not fitted to the Argentinian Mirrage Jets (again supplied by the French). After the war began they agreed not to continue to help the Argentinians, but amazingly the Argentinians managed to fit their missiles and callibrate them properly (an impossible task without trained French technicians). The only bad boy in all this is France, but don't think for a second that the US is all holy and white. It looks out for its own self interest with no thought about the consequences every single time. Its just a mercinary bullying force with its own back pocket firmly in charge. When Tibet got invaded by China howmany US troops went to help then? As the British Empire fell appart and the Commonwealth was formed, howmany petty dictators did the CIA assist in the brutalisation of their population. Just think how different the world would be if Britain hadn't been at war with France and Spain in the 1700s. The USA might have a culture of responsibility for its actions like Canada and Australia instead of pretending it can solve everything with little men in tanks.