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by Donald W. Miller, Jr.

President Woodrow Wilson, following the precedent set by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, transformed the American Republic into an Empire. He did it by sending U.S. troops to Europe to join in a fight between Empires, where one, the German Hohenzollern Empire was trying to best its better-established neighbor, the British Empire. When U.S. troops arrived in France in 1917 the three-year-old war had reached a stalemate. But with American troops coming to the aid of Britain, France, Russia, and their allies the balance shifted, and in 1918 this coalition of states defeated Germany and its Central Power allies.

In an address given to a joint sessions of Congress in 1918, Wilson presented a 14 point program, “our program…the only possible program,” as he put it, for world peace. These points addressed the adjustment of colonial claims, the borders and sovereignty of Belgium, France (in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine), Italy, Austria-Hungary, Rumania, Serbia, Montenegro, Turkey, and Poland. Point 6 welcomed Russia into the society of free nations, with the “assistance of every kind she may need and may herself desire.” Point 14 advocated a new world order through the formation of a “general association of nations,” i.e., the League of Nations. As Richard Gamble puts it in Reassessing the Presidency, “The Fourteen Points were a direct effort to rearrange Europe, marking an unprecedented entry of the U.S. into European affairs and a further departure from America’s traditional foreign policy of nonentanglement and non-intervention.”

American intervention in this European war, one that had no bearing on American national interests, resulted in the Wilson-inspired Treaty of Versailles, which effectively destroyed Germany as an economically and politically viable nation and led to the rise of Adolph Hitler and the Nazis. America’s first acts as an Empire had consequences that proved disastrous. Had the United States not intervened and allowed World War I to end in a stalemate, an intact Hohenzollern Germany could have thwarted the Bolshevik takeover of Russia and prevented the rise of Stalin. Although he said he wanted to “bring light and liberty and peace to all the world,” Wilson’s involvement in European affairs instead enabled Bolshevism to conquer Russia and Central Asia. Over the next seventy years Lenin, Stalin, and their successors killed, in the name of socialism, more than sixty million people, by starvation, exposure, and executions. Soviet apparatchiks tortured many millions of innocent men, women, and children.

Fritz Haber

Look this guy up. He practically invented chemical warfare. His wife was so distraught in his weapons that she killed herself.

He later was instramental in the creation of zyclon B which was used to kill Jewish people. Guess what….He was Jewish!

Probably one of the most evil scientists inthe history of time.

What type of sacrifices are you meaning? Ritual or the sacrafice of troops?

In broad terms, political corruption is when government officials use their governmental powers for illegitimate private gain. Misuse of government power for other purposes, like repression of political opponents and general police brutality, is not considered political corruption. Illegal acts by private persons or corporations not directly involved with the government is not considered political corruption either. Illegal acts by officeholders constitute political corruption only if the acts are directly related to their official duties.

All forms of government are susceptible to political corruption. Forms of corruption vary, but include bribery, extortion, cronyism, nepotism, patronage, graft, and embezzlement. While corruption may facilitate criminal enterprise such as drug trafficking, money laundering, and trafficking, it is not restricted to these organized crime activities. In some nations corruption is so common that it is expected when ordinary businesses or citizens interact with government officials. The end-point of political corruption is a kleptocracy, literally “rule by thieves”.

What constitutes illegal corruption differs depending on the country or jurisdiction. Certain political funding practices that are legal in one place may be illegal in another. In some countries, government officials have broad or not well defined powers, and the line between what is legal and illegal can be difficult to draw.

Bribery around the world is estimated at about $1 trillion (£494bn) and the burden of corruption falls disproportionately on the bottom billion people living in extreme poverty

There’s such times as Abysinnia and Manchuria where people wanting to expand their empires have broken the rules. Italy used poison gas and Japan set up a fake bombing of their railway. This all shows how leaders were prepared to do whatever possible for more power.
What’s intersting about both these incidents were not helped by the league of nations which was based on Wilsons 14 points.