BlondieBC
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What I am thinking was if the first torpedo misses, the Lusitania gets only a few miles from the shore, a second torpedo mildly damages the ship, and she makes it onto the shore with obvious signs of damage from a U-boat, but still very much operational, with no American deaths. What does this change?
Well this will change everything. There is apparently no loss of civilian life, much less major American life loss. The attack will be condemn in the American papers, and it will be defended. And then it depends on what the Germans do. Do the Germans adjust their rules of engagement enough to avoid sinking another passenger liner or is the event just delayed until some later date in the war.
Also, a lot of the USW was more about the PR campaign than changes in RoE. So a lot of how things work here is how bombastic the Germans are in their statements.