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WASHINGTON Urging national leaders to “tread carefully,” top experts from the Council on Foreign Relations warned Thursday that acknowledging the Armenian genocide could risk drawing the U.S. into WWI. “The mass killings of the Armenian people was a tragedy, but we fear acknowledging the ethnic cleansing of one million Armenians now would only provoke the Ottoman Empire,” said Steven A. Cook, who added that recognizing the brutal mass murder of Armenians could also upset the delicately balanced alliance system created by Otto von Bismarck. “Nothing is more important than American neutrality. President Biden was elected on a platform of neutrality, after all. The U.S. has successfully avoided entering the European conflict for over a century, and we don’t want a conflict with the sultan and his allies now.” At press time, the Senate had passed a resolution declaring war on Germany. ....
Sources close to the matter told The New York Times that Biden is expected to make the announcement on Saturday, which would be the 106th anniversary of the start of a multi-year ethnic cleansing campaign that began during WWI and ended in 1922. Biden would be the first U.S. President to recognize the actions against the Armenian people as a genocide, the Times notes, though former President Reagan made a reference to the genocide once in 1981 when discussing the Holocaust. ADVERTISEMENT As a presidential candidate last year, Biden had previously indicated his support for recognition, writing in a Medium post to commemorate Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day: “If we do not fully acknowledge, commemorate, and teach our children about genocide, the words ‘never again’ lose their meaning. ....