This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I am John Bachelor, Gaius, and Germanicus is here,

Macovlejo's, I greed him. We're in Londinium. It's 91 AD, late summer. The centurians and their families have had a good day of shopping and they're

headed home.

We're drinking by the Thames, a cup of wine, second cup of wine.

We're Eccles class, meaning we don't have the money to be senators, wouldn't want to be anyway.

Senate is dangerous. Eccles class means maybe 100,000 sistericaries if you're lucky.

Senator, million plus, easy.

That's not us.

We observe.

We do not write things down, however.

Recently, that's been restated to me.

Do not write things down down because documents can be used

by unfriendly forces. We, however, are observing not our own century, the first century

AD. We're observing the 21st century a day, 2,000 years from now, and some

bumpy parts of the 21st century stem from the 20th century. So we're going to wind the clock back from 2024 to 1914 and

the Great War, 1914 to 1918. The The combatants to this day are not at all clear for themselves why it

started. To this day there is an argument to me made that no one wanted this war and that they all

got into it without reason they just followed along orders were given, momentum. However, we're here to talk about not the

great war, Austria-Hungary and Germany, the central powers along with Bulgaria

versus the Anton that would be Britain, France, Russia, Serbia.

Now we're here to talk about America's position towards the Great War.

Woodrow Wilson is president in 1914.

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