The Bolshevik regime, odious in its own right, was allied with German militarism and autocracy. Interventions by Japanese, American, British and French forces, combined with local Russian support, would strike against both enemies. It was an intervention, as Lloyd George and Lansing insisted, in which strategic imperatives and the pursuit of democracy were inseparable. The war fused the two together, and if the war in the West had continued much longer it is hard to see how the Bolshevik regime could have survived.
