Electoral pressure could end an unpopular conflict identified as Woodrow Wilson’s war as early as 1916. A replacement administration might seek peace before Germany, leaving the United States defeated without being occupied. The settlement could cap American naval strength at parity with Japan or impose another construction limit without eliminating the U.S. Navy. Small border adjustments in Canada’s favor are proposed, while sweeping annexations are rejected as a source of lasting revanchism. The projected outcome is political humiliation and constrained naval growth rather than conquest of the continental United States.
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A short, damaging war could reshape naval limits
The proposed aftermath is a politically costly American peace and a possible naval-limitation settlement rather than occupation of the United States.