The great Jobs and Growth Lie., page-32

From the US own archives; Woodrow Wilson "wanted to protect the billion-dollar investment of American guns and equipment along the Trans-Siberian Railway. Vast quantities of supplies had been sent when America believed that Russia was capable of fighting and winning against the Central Powers in the spring of 1917." Wilson also hoped to "implant capitalism there".

The U.S. Army in Russia, 1918 - National Archives
Reasons for Intervention

President Woodrow Wilson's motivation for sending troops to Siberia stemmed from the same desires that drove him to try to impose the Paris Peace Treaty on Europe: the promotion of democracy and self-determination. But first and foremost, he wanted to protect the billion-dollar investment of American guns and equipment along the Trans-Siberian Railway. Vast quantities of supplies had been sent when America believed that Russia was capable of fighting and winning against the Central Powers in the spring of 1917.

The Menshevik Revolution, which overthrew the tsar in February and March 1917, raised Wilson's hopes for democratizing Russia and implanting capitalism there.

https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2002/winter/us-army-in-russia-1.html

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Winter 2002, Vol. 34, No. 4
Guarding the Railroad, Taming the Cossacks
The U.S. Army in Russia, 1918 - 1920
By Gibson Bell Smith

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0		American troops parade in Vladivostok, August 1918. (NWDNS-165-WW-558C(4))