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Old 07-30-2014, 05:01 PM   #33
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Originally Posted by nik- View Post
backwater, impotent and unimportant ... hmm. Isolationist I'll give you, but the US was still the largest economy in the world before WW1. Bigger than the UK, Germany and Austria combined. There's a reason the the british wanted them in the war so badly, and it's not the three things you listed.
Yeah, manpower.
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