Scott Horton

First of all, the first thing he does is he bribes Kerensky, the new ruler of Russia, to stay in the war.

Now, the original Russian Revolution was in March of 1917.

Lenin and Trotsky didn't take over until October.

And the reason they were able to was because Woodrow Wilson paid Kerensky, the interim leader, millions of dollars and gave him tanks and guns and trucks and food and whatever to stay in the war.

Well, I might be conflating with World War II there.

Gave him not exactly full-end lease, but gave him a bunch of money and equipment to stay in the war.

I guess I forget the exact extent of it, but it was enough that it convinced Kerensky to stay in the war.

therefore then when lenin and trotsky went to cease power in the commie revolution in october one the kerensky regime didn't have any support from the people because he wouldn't end the war and then two there were no soldiers there to protect saint petersburg from the commies so the commies were able to to end the war um to cease power and then end the war

But then the British and the French got to dictate such harsh terms to the Germans that not only did it lead to their economic devastation, but they kept a full blockade on Germany and starved them by the hundreds of thousands, maybe millions starved after the war was over.

And then they stripped them of all of their outlying territories as well.

So you had major parts of Germany or what had been Germany and predominantly German lands were stripped away and given to Poland and to Czechoslovakia and to France and whatever.

There's a great book by James Powell called Wilson's War, how Woodrow Wilson's great blunder led to the rise of Stalin, Hitler, and World War II.

And so step one is he bribed Kerensky to stay in the war long enough for the commies to create the Soviet Union.

Then he helped the British and the French stick it to the Germans so badly that they were willing to accept the rise of the Nazi party in the name of claiming revenge and reclaiming their lost territories and prestige.

So this is even the way I learned it in government school as a kid was that

Britain and France at their terms in the Versailles Treaty were so harsh that it ended up humiliating the German people so bad that they were willing to accept the rise of Hitler and the Nazis.

That's even my public school education confirmed, told that much of it.

And you know why?

Because the rest of the story is that it's all the Senate's fault.

Because if only the Senate had ratified the League of Nations Treaty and Versailles Treaty, then we'd have set up the original United Nations in Europe,