US Elections Don’t Matter — There Is a Bigger Cause for Concern
History is teaching us a lesson and we refuse to learn
In 1904–05, there was a war between the Empire of Russia and the Empire of Japan — also known as the Russo-Japanese War. The war ended with the 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth. The then-US President Theodore Roosevelt was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 for playing an instrumental part in the negotiations.
We then saw the First World War between 1914 to 1918 — the war between the Central Powers and the Allied Powers. The Central Powers were comprised of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire who fought against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan, and the United States or the Allied Powers. The war is believed to have claimed about 16 million lives.
The US only officially entered the war in 1917 and Woodrow Wilson, the US President during the period of the war, won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1919. According to the Nobel Prize website:
President Woodrow Wilson of the United States won the Peace Prize for 1919 as the leading architect behind the League of Nations. It was to ensure world peace after the slaughter of millions of people in the First World War.
After the outbreak of war in 1914, it was Wilson’s policy to…
