Just to put Kennan's remark in context with what I think.....
Most Americans think we were doing the right thing in WWI, ostensibly going in to defeat the Kaiser, (we had also been U boat attacked, but that wasn't the main reason) but mainly going in (propagandistically) to dismember Western European Imperial Civilization itself, not just the Kaiser's Germany, but all other remaining imperial and monarchic regimes whatsoever, if possible, to then make way for the democratic international socialist universal world state Americans back then dreamed of, and only after the Bolsheviks had made it that kind of conflict, we thought, did we really go forward.
The European great powers themselves had used democratic revolution as a weapon or a threat against each other, of course, since before the French Revolution, but we used it as our only ideological weapon, because we had jettisoned the old European order itself, and had then no other cards to play but the democratic revolution card.
The European great powers themselves had used democratic revolution as a weapon or a threat against each other, of course, since before the French Revolution, but we used it as our only ideological weapon, because we had jettisoned the old European order itself, and had then no other cards to play but the democratic revolution card.
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