Another misadventure that has a familiar pattern to it (corrected)

 

There are these history videos on Prime, which is a way to get acquainted with the subject without actually reading about it. That will probably result in a sneer or two about that source of information, which may have a somewhat leftist slant to it. Obviously in the case of Theodore Roosevelt, one can detect the admiration for the guy. But this same guy changed American history in a very bad way, in my opinion.

 

Thanks to Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson won the presidency in 1912. Wilson was a consummate jackass. After running as a peace candidate, he managed to get the nation involved in the First World War. Was that war inevitable for the USA? After the war, there was a great many who thought America's involvement in that war was a mistake. Indeed, it was.

However, it spawned the Isolationist Movement, which was equally disastrous. America was so unprepared for war in the late 1930's that newly minted recruits couldn't practice with real weapons nor bullets. Meanwhile, Hitler and his Japanese allies were hell bent on conquering the world. What was needed was vigorous preparation and will to prevent the war that did occur. The Isolationists of the First Second were as wrong as the Interventionists in the First World War. America should've stayed out the First world War, which may have ended in a stalemate. (and no American involvement, and subsequent Wilsonian nonsense.)

Roosevelt ran for the 3rd term in 1912, as mentioned. The video said that the nation should prepare for war. However, if Roosevelt had been elected instead Wilson, he may well have charged into war a lot sooner. Roosevelt was right to have the nation prepare for battle, but the trick is to prepare for what hopefully will not happen. If America was sufficiently strong at that time, there wouldn't have been any attacks, and America might well have stayed out of the war.

 

History repeats, it is said. Trump ran as a Peace candidate, and now he getting the country involved in Ukraine. This is not our war, and so far, it is a lot like the First World War. It is a stalemate. The best solution is to let them fight it out, and then negotiate it as an end between themselves. Meanwhile, America should rebuild its inventories of spent weapons. We are getting our national defense into a bad situation here, or so I worry. Ukraine is not NATO. There are plenty of nations that ARE. Build up THEIR defenses, and be on guard for any attack west, should Russia prevail in Ukraine.

Instead, we are jumping in. I've got a really bad feeling about this.