The US Has Been Involved In These Wars For Nearly Half Its Existence [INFOGRAPHIC]

[TheMadMonk]

33. The US was as much behind the inequities of the Versailes...

...Treaty and Marshal Plan as Britain and France.

It is becoming more and more likely that the Lusitania incident was deliberately engineered to get the US populace behind a war they wanted to stay out of. At the same time, there is any amout of evidence that "Stay out of it." was official policy right up until the moment it wasn't.

In fact one could make an argument for the US hanging back a year or so to see if there was any profit in tooling up for mechanised warfare, or simply gain the time to tool up to the stage where the US could make some impact.

And then cynically sending a shipload of civilians to their deaths in order to change a nation's collective minds in an instant.

Arguably many of the roots of WWII were in the 29 crash and great depression which was a US phenomenon spread to the rest of the world. Where it collided with the Post WWI treaties, hyperinflation and/or fascism set in.

Plenty of European beligerance toward Japan too.

Ultimately, it's lead to arms traders realising there's more profit in the instruments of modern mechanised war, than there is in the commodities being "secured".