The land where he needed to build his canal was owned by Colombia and they would not allow it.
The unforseen attack on Pearl Harbor...(which led to WWII)
This goes in 2nd place for the funniest stuff I’ve seen on here frl
They believed that France would never be safe unless Germany was crippled. In his view, Germany should be forced to pay large amounts in reparations to Belgium and France. Clemenceau also wanted Germany to be broken up into small states again and banned from re-uniting