USA joins Central Powers

TR could defeat the entire German army himself.

Only if he fought it in the first place.

According to NYT Journalist Charles Willis Thompson, TR told him that, once Germany had been brought to order and was no longer drowning Americans on the high seas, he would have had words with Britain as well, regarding the interception of American mails and related matters. He did not regard British behaviour as acceptable, merely as a lower priority than German.

So assuming that Germany backs down in the face of TR's Lusitania note, as she did, however grudgingly, in the face of Wilson's, then Anglo-American relations will suffer a rapid downturn. Thompson, incidentally, was an admirer of TR and strongly pro-Ally, so had no obvious reason to make up such a tale after the war.
 
Pfft, TR would single handed invade BOTH Germany and Britain, and then still have time to invade Mexico.

I once did a TL for TR having the political allies to force Wilson into
agreeing to have him lead the 100,000 troops-- in Albania. True, the
Yugoslavs were nuts and hated by the Albanians, but have them
placed elsewhere on that front. It would have probably helped
somewhat for a few months in that backwater, yet TR's health
would insist on a replacement after a mandatory 4 months.

About Germany, for a POD, be advised that about 1907 with
the Kaiser Bill getting into hot water advising becoming like Huns
to the press, there was open talk of replacing him with one of
the less agressive and more stable family royals. Have the
TL replace him then.

With a normal person, less prone to a withered and deformed hand
while weened on nationalistic steroids as Willy was by Bismarck
and others, American press would have tilted the scene the other
way. However, the ruling class (Senate) was all but imbibed with
Little Lord Fauntleroy and other gastley aping of the practically
diseased British nobility at the time, especially the American matrons
who read a lot of novels. Most of them would have persisted, a
force that indicates at best staying neutral, especially with the
number of divorced countesses, duchesses, etc there were in
America at the time, 85% or so from Allied counties' marriages of
a contributing groom input (Italy, France, UK being most favored). It
beat becoming a spinster or married to some bore making widgets
for his industrialist father in Peoria.

Speaking of being diseased, I have no idea what that quote is about
of the above previous poster. It is weird and assumed out of context
or lampooning another poster, but if it is not removed in a few weeks
I will complain to the moderator.
 
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