As such, I like to remind myself about why certain wars are started. While reading Woodrow Wilson's message to the Congress of April 2, 1917, I came across this gem of a line:
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies or set the course of intrigue to bring about some critical posture of affairs which will give them an opportunity to strike and make conquest.
The "self-governed" nations he is referring to is democratic nations. The crux of the whole message comes later:
The world must be made safe for democracy.
That's why the US went into WWI.
And yet, the world is not safe for democracy anymore.
Even though Woodrow Wilson founded the Nazi movement (at least the nationalist half of it) and ended all culture, I guess he has some insight into things after all. On the scale of worst people to ever live, he is now slightly above Rick James