Wilson’s War

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By Jim Powell

How Woodrow Wilson’s Great Blunder Led to Hitler, Lenin, Stalin & World War I. President Wilson famously rallied the United States to enter World War I by saying the nation had a duty to make “the world safe for democracy.” Far from making the world safe for democracy, America’s entry into the war opened the door to murderous tyrants and Communist rulers. No other president has had a hand—however unintentional—in so much destruction.