We would ultimately have had to align with Stalin anyway, or else World War II would ended in victory for Hitler.
Sort of a “Pick Your Poison” situation. This article helps me to see some parallels in American History. Obama crawling on the floors hoping to extend an olive branch to Iran is not without precedent. This article is as full-bodied and opaque as a dark Mexican beer, so I will come back and finish it later, having sampled the froth.
History is not your strong suit.
That really is the bottom line. A wolf at your door is much more dangerous than a wolf that is some distance away.
Not necessarily, there’s a good chance that if Hitler took Moscow, Stalin and the Bolsheviks would have been removed from power, and a new government could have led Russia to victory, and both the Nazis and Bolsheviks could have been out of the picture.
not true, in fact, one of the final points you realize in her book, is that we did not fight to our doctrine, but to soviet doctrine, we waxed the Nazis only AFTER the soviets entered German territory, we didnt invade until Russia was inside German borders
and she makes it clear, it appears to have been why we waited so long to invade Europe in France