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I got Thomas before he escapes town and goes on the lam to do another World War I episode.

How are you doing Thomas? I'm doing well. Something I want to touch on today before

we get into the battlefield situation amidst the American intervention.

You know, I made the point in the last episode,

we were focusing on Wilson and his war mandate

or lack thereof preceding developments on the Mexican border.

It's important to note that the American people and particularly white America at that time close to half of people had you know

German heritage in whole or in part. But there was a tremendous divide between

elite opinion and the American Street. I mean mean even more than there is ordinarily in policy terms or whatever

one of the ways this was cultivated was the UK, they were always masterful of kind of manipulating world opinion.

I mean that's one of the benefits of literally having infrastructure

cutting edge infrastructure as it then was you know on a third of this planet or more as they did

you know and in those days the news, we still use that term because it was telegraph.

Like that's basically how until Telex came about, um, that was basically the only way you transmitted data, you know, across the continental divide.

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