BlondieBC
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I dont agree with you in regards of the USW howeve thats really beside the point in this thread. German submarines were going to sink american mercant ships and ships with american passengers and this would piss off the USA and turn popular opinion there against Germany - which was the point I was making.
Don't agree on basic facts does not cut it. What you is saying is like "I don't agree the USA flattened Japanese cities in WW2". As soon as one ignores clearly established historical facts, one is not debating OTL but some ATL.
I have repeatedly posting sources and explanation of how German sank ships both with and without warning. The source is a book that compiles the date from the Official Royal Navy archives. I have personally read the NY Times articles for this matter. All of them. I have looked at the ship sunk on a month to month basis, and at times, a week to week basis. USA outrage was only inflamed when it made a good story. These good stories basically involved either a loss of American civilian life in numbers and/or the Germans on one of their PR campaigns to scare people. And the big one is the Lusitania where the Germans were printing ads warning of the attack just in case the American press did not cover the issue enough in the news section. Germany was quite simply trying to get these stories in the news, and for logic that is understandable but ultimately tragic for German imperial designs.
Germans sank US merchant ships and the US did nothing. Germany sank ships within sight of the USA shore and Americans watching from shore. The USA did nothing. The USA only reacted to a few major events. Now to be clear, I am not saying there were no diplomatic notes. No articles in the paper, but on these type of issues the USA did no more or less than it did when i periodically protest the British preventing unlimited USA shipping to Amsterdam.