• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      The US allied with the USSR to fight the Nazis.

      FDR allied with Stalin to fight the Nazis. As soon as Franky kicked it, his VP Truman pivoted into Cold War mode.

      Even before then, Red Scare politics in the US was rampant. Prescott Bush, Joe Kennedy, Henry Ford, The Dulles Brothers, Rockerfeller Jr, J. Edgar Hoover and a constellation of anti-communist interests agitated against the alliance with the Soviets from day one of the War.

      The real alliance was between the US and UK, with Russia functioning as cannon fodder to pull German troops off the Western Front. Nobody in the West believed Russia could survive a full mechanized invasion, much less repel the Germans and race Eisenhower to Berlin.

      The only US/China alliance Americans could stomach would be in similar terms, with the presumption that China would be hollowed out and inconsequential at the cessation of hostilities.