WI Roosevelt as POTUS joins WWI in 1914

A year ago i asked here in the forum what would be the most belligerant president on america's history, and the answer was Theodore Roosevelt

let's say that Roosevelt wins the election of 1912 under the progressive party, and he declares war on Germany as the battle of the marne starts, what is going to happen?

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He'll face some consequences in November and probably have to deal with a hostile Congress for the rest of his term. Assuming he didn't beforehand on account of being a third party candidate. Between isolationists, socialists, German-Americans, Irish-Americans, William Randolph Hearst, and other groups who opposed entering the war, things could get ugly.

Honestly, without a casus belli I don't think it could be done. Maybe if he waited for the Lusitania things would go better.
 

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IN 1914 he would have not gotten it through congress -- he would have known he could not and not pushed it. However H would most likely have created a settlement - 1915 -- by pushing allies though credit and Germany through fear of USA entering. In 1917 Germany felt that the USA was econ and supply at war with them already.
 
A president cannot unilaterally declare war, and in any event TR did not argue that the US should join the war in 1914. (In fact, technically speaking he never argued that the US should join the war until 1917, though from the time of the *Luistania* onwards he advocated policies that would have been likely to involve the US in the war.)
 
Politics aside from what I understand of the US military in 1914, they were in no shape to even think about going to war against a first rate power.
 
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