Why did some Americans vocally oppose President Woodrow Wilson's decision to send American troops to Russia to put down the revolutionary Bolshevik regime in 1918?

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When President Woodrow Wilson sent troops to Russia in 1918, World War One has not finished yet. He wanted to help France and Britain to bring back Russia into the war - the Bolsheviks had signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany, pulling Russia out of the war - in order to reopen an Eastern Front. Wilson´s critics didn´t understand the purpose of the action, the goals. Senator Hiram Johnson, a Republican from California, asked in a speech delivered in December that year: "What is the policy of our nation toward Russia?, " and answered himself, "I do not know our policy , and I know no other man who knows our policy." Johnson joined anti-war efforts by fellow senator Robert La Follette. So, to opponents of a Russian engagement by US forces, military intervention there did not make sense. It can also be assumed, given traditional isolationist views, that they were also afraid of more entanglements that could prove worthless.

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