The acquiescence to Stalin in the late 1930s, only to impose rationing on Americans to rescue beloved “Uncle Joe” later, was ridiculous. We prepared our future enemy for both the Korean & Vietnam Wars.
I understand why Europeans after WWI never really got behind wars/military actions; they understood that governments are not trustworthy enough to send their young to die for them.
“The acquiescence to Stalin in the late 1930s, only to impose rationing on Americans to rescue beloved “Uncle Joe” later, was ridiculous. We prepared our future enemy for both the Korean & Vietnam Wars.”
Britain and the United States made half-hearted attempts to support anti-Communist forces in Russia during the Russian Civil War, but those anti-Communist forces failed to achieve independence from the Bolshevik Communists. When FDR’s Administration came into power in the United States in 1933, it was generally and for the most part covertly sympathetic to socialism and communism. Although Americans were generally not sympathetic with Communists, those in FDR’s Administration who were not disposed to regard the Soviets as anything but an enemy of Americans and democracy did tend to agree the enemy of our enemy was a friend in need during the hostilities with Germany. So, even if the Soviets tended to be a reluctant and hostile ally of the United States, any contribution to mutual victory over Germany was seen to be beneficial to the Allied war effort, and at worst the denial of Soviet resources and manpower that could be used by Germany against the Allies was useful.
To put it all in another way, the most important purpose of accepting the Soviet Union as an ally during World War Two was to deny Germany the opportunity to use the Soviet territories, bases, natural resources, industries, manpower, and military forces against the Western Allies and their overseas forces in the worldwide theaters of war. Keeping the Soviet Union as an ally also denied Germany the opportunity to maintain a line of communications with Japan or routes of attack against Allied bases and resources in Southwest Asia.