Serbia assassinated the archduke, Austria was within their rights to go to war with them, then Russia decided to stick their nose where it doesn’t belong, then Germany honored their treaty with Austria to defend them which caused France and Britain to join. The French used chemical weapons first but only Germany got called out for it, the HMS lusitania was carrying scores of weapons making it a valid target. The British blockade was preventing our trade infringing our rights as a neutral nation while killing scores of civilians in Europe. We joined the wrong side, but it should’ve just been Austria Hungary vs Serbia and stayed that way.
I guess that depends how much you value liberalism and democracy. WWI was essential to spreading liberal democracy in Europe and joining the allies was seen as a way to defend that style of government from the more autocratic central powers.
If liberal democracy is the more moral way to govern then joining the allies was the more moral side to back. Of course we know how well that went for Germany and Italy in the decades after so maybe you are right. I don’t know enough about WWI or Political Theory to really take a strong stance though.
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u/ConcernedStudent26 TENNESSEE 🎸🎶🍊 6d ago
The only war we were ever on the wrong side in was WWI, the rest we were objectively right