- 10 Dec 2016 01:21
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There was no reason for the US to get into any of this nonsense, they could have merely declared at the start:
"we will be trading with all nations through this war, and anyone that tries to interfere with any trade carried out under the American flag will be considered to have committed an act of war against the United States."
They could have simply taken the line: we'll not have Britain, France , Germany ir any one else telling us who we can and can't trade with.
pugsville wrote:You have to understand, (a) the German blockade was Killing US citizens, maybe not many, but that did not go down well with the US public, (b) Britain dominated US investment, (about 65% of all foreign investment in the US) Britain was well positioned to buy vast amounts of stuff from the US in a way the central powers were not. Britian was doing business on vast scale which was very profitable for the US. (c) The Base of the British Blockade was legal, the base of the unrestricted submarine warfare was not.
SO
(a) emotionally the German blockade was much worse
(b) finically the British were a m8ch superior trading partner
(c) Legally the British had a much better case.
There was no reason for the US to get into any of this nonsense, they could have merely declared at the start:
"we will be trading with all nations through this war, and anyone that tries to interfere with any trade carried out under the American flag will be considered to have committed an act of war against the United States."
They could have simply taken the line: we'll not have Britain, France , Germany ir any one else telling us who we can and can't trade with.
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