She proceeded to flounder when asked about the Phillipines, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Nicaragua
Then goes on with it before claiming that he respected Russian sovereignty despite the literal invasion of Russia during the Russian Civil War :zizek: :brainworms: :brainworms: :brainworms:
claiming that he respected Russian sovereignty
This is funny because Wilson was a notorious Slavophobe. He hated Russia and often wished they were on the other side of the world war. He thought their Tsarist autocratic political system existed because the Slavic skull or whatever could not comprehend democratic ideas. He gave a speech as president called "The Case Against Russia" lmao
this quote is kind of ambiguously written and I haven't been able to locate a copy of the book, but dropping it here
Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him, and the doors of the nations which are closed must be battered down. Concessions obtained by financiers must be safeguarded by ministers of state, even if the sovereignty of unwilling nations be outraged in the process. Colonies must be obtained or planted, in order that no useful corner of the world may be overlooked or left unused.
—Woodrow Wilson in an unpublished paper of 1907, as quoted in The Rising American Empire (1960) by Richard Warner Van Alstyne, p. 201
you're probably right, just seemed that without any additional context the paragraph could conceivably be saying these things are bad
Ask her if she knows what a "secret treaty" is? Or about what Trotsky published when the Bolsheviks seized Petrograd? Wilson was already in talks with Europe about how to divide up and sell off the Ottoman Empire and the Balkans without even joining the war, and before there was even talk of a peace agreement. The very notion of peace treaties cannot exist when you are secretly deciding how to sell these countries off, unless you are going for unconditional surrender, which was not the case
It's wrong to call it pure ideology because this is such a stew of different ideologies and goals that it's just incomprehensible.
