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Originally Posted by Show Me the Wire
What liberal democracies are you referring to? I am not painting anything. The fall of monarchies was an unintended consequence of the war, a war due to imperialism. England was and is a monarchy which practices imperialism, France practiced imperialism, the reason for U.S. involvement in Vietnam. The war was about power over territories outside the participants boundaries.
No country's war goal had been to end monarchies. The goal had been to protect outside territories and expand them, period.
You need to stop reading revisionist history books.
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Practicing imperialism is irrelevant to the states that waged the war. France and Britain at the time were ruled by parliamentary governments. British had parliament and France the third republic.
Just because you practice imperialism has zero hearing on the type of government you operate. The United States practiced imperialism from the time of McKinley through to the 20s and at the time was the most successful of the imperialists.
One does not disqualify the other.
Its competing systems of government nothing more nothing less. Monarchies were defeated by Liberal Democracies... barely but they did.
