I don’t think Britain or France did them self any favors by sending minor ministers to Russia by slow boat to negotiate either. It really showed Stalin that they were not serious about eastern Europe which would mean that if war broke out the Soviets would pretty much be left standing alone. Stalin was far too shrewd for that so instead used the desperation of the Germans for a treaty to his advantage to absorb the Baltic states and buy time before he would have to face the Germans in combat.
Yep, but I bet Stalin crapped in his pants when he saw how quickly France fell. In hindsight, it might have been a blessing in disguise, because the Soviets were counting on a long protracted war in the West, so that they could sweep in from the East and would only have to face the depleted armies of Germany and the Allies, then you would have been talking about Soviet domination of all of Europe.