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He only seems to have started to really care about what was going on when his precious Soviet Union was threatened.

Ridiculous. He was doing a heck of a lot to support Britain when the Soviet Union was still part of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. The Lend-Lease Act, beginning of the draft in the US, the US escorting convoys in the Atlantic and attacking U-Boats, were all BEFORE Germany invaded Russia.

I like conspiracy theories as much as the next guy, but there's no reason to think that commies are any smarter and better organized than us capitalists. True, Stalin had a lot more clowns in his back pocket than most want to admit (French lefties in '39 for instance) but it's a bit hard to believe that FDR (for all his faults) was on Stalin's payroll.

Unless you got a photo of a paystub or something (in which case, please share).

Ridiculous. He was doing a heck of a lot to support Britain when the Soviet Union was still part of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.

Your timeline is a bit disingenuous. The Lend Lease Act was passed in March 1941 and Germany invaded Russia in June 1941. At the time the Lend Lease Act was passed, it was common knowledge that the German/Russian alliance of convenience was already at an end and that a German attack on Russia was imminent.

The Lend-Lease Act, beginning of the draft in the US,

The reestablishment of the draft was as much an economic move as a military one and occurred in 1940 - too late to be a deterrent or a warning to the Nazis.

the US escorting convoys in the Atlantic and attacking U-Boats, were all BEFORE Germany invaded Russia.

Yes, FDR did the bare minimum of protecting America's access to the Atlantic sealanes.

The fact is, he campaigned in 1940 on an antiwar isolationist platform, implying that he was completely and almost criminally indifferent to the rise of the Nazi empire.

Then, as soon as Germany turned on his darling Communists, he all of a sudden became committed to a proactive, anti-Nazi European policy.

He ignored the entire situation from 1933-1940, giving mere lip service to the British opposition, turning away refugees, allowing militant bunds to form and permitting Nazis to come and lecture at American universities.

And of course, the Communist influence on his administration is well-documented.