Why in the world do you believe America would have been involved in the Great War if the American President had simply maintained a real neutrality as even Wilsons first but sacked Sec of State Wm J Bryant demanded? And I must be missing something for in 1940 how could Taft have ignored the Soviet threat to a greater degree than giving them half of Europe and eventually throwing in China as Roosevelt did?
“giving them half of Europe and eventually throwing in China as Roosevelt did”
We can’t lay China on Roosevelt’s doorstep. But I’ve always wondered why more people don’t complain about the fact that we wasted all that blood and money on liberating Europe just to hand it over to another tyrant. For it’s pretty much just as much territory that Stalin conquered as what Hitler marched into, yes? The spectre of the holocaust and anti-Hitler propaganda probably did the job. That and the powerful unconscious desire to believe it wasn’t all worthless.