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The Failed Presidency of Franklin Roosevelt: William Bullitt’s Warning
The American Spectator ^ | 7 Sep 2022 | Francis Sempa

Posted on 01/08/2022 8:55:03 AM PST by Rummyfan

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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

And he had a number of Soviet moles as his top aides and administration appointees who helped steer him into making the “right” decisions.


21 posted on 01/08/2022 10:25:25 AM PST by Madam Theophilus
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To: Rummyfan

Ridiculous title and concept!

FDR (our 2nd Marxist president) was a HUGE success, otherwise we would not have become the full-fledged communist tyranny that we now are...


22 posted on 01/08/2022 10:41:47 AM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: gr8eman
There is much to criticize in FDR's dealings with the Soviets, but the brutal facts of geography, dogged Nazi resistance, and Anglo-American war weariness limited US options at the end of WW II. Germany was a wasteland by the end of the war and had to be occupied and fed. She could not have provided a secure supply route had the British and American armies tried to push further east against the Soviets.

In addition, the American and British publics were not ready to support a war against the USSR after Germany's defeat. And another military task was yet before us: the invasion and subjugation of Japan, which was expected to require the commitment of most of the US combat troops in Europe. Japan's surrender after the two atom bomb attacks could not be relied on.

23 posted on 01/08/2022 10:52:08 AM PST by Rockingham
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To: SuperLuminal

And Wilson was the first?


24 posted on 01/08/2022 10:54:39 AM PST by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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To: Rockingham

A man elected President four times was “naive?” The term “unconditional surrender” just popped into his head at Casablanca. FDR’s policies were formulated in Moscow. “Unconditional surrender” was created by a government committee composed of Communists. Harry Dexter White, a Communist agent, authored the Morgenthau Plan which almost drove all of Europe into Communist hands. It also prolonged the war in the Pacific. The Japanese saw what was in store for them (slavery and starvation). White is the father of the modern global economic system. He created the IMF and World Bank.


25 posted on 01/08/2022 11:12:48 AM PST by Vehmgericht
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
Patton may have made it work.

Not possible.

Throughout WWII any ground invasion could travel about 700 road miles from their supply depot before running out of fuel. This would have gotten the third army to about the Vistula River (Warsaw, Poland). The army would then be effectively stalled until a new depot was established and filled near the front line, expect the enemy to interfere with the process of building up the new depot.

While I believe it equally applied to the Soviet troops, the general opinion of most of the US and British troops could be summed up as "War is over, we won, now when do I go home?"

26 posted on 01/08/2022 11:23:56 AM PST by Fraxinus (My opinion, worth what you paid.)
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To: Rummyfan

More revisionist history from the point of view of decades later.
Read Nigel Hamilton’s 3 volume books on FDR as CIC, I don’t think anyone could have a better job under the circumstances.


27 posted on 01/08/2022 11:28:13 AM PST by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

I doubt it, by that time the Soviet Armies were much more battle hardened that the Allied Armies and had fought in conditions that defied anything ever seen. The Soviets would have beaten us and would have totally committed themselves . You need to read more of what the eastern war as and how it was fought.


28 posted on 01/08/2022 11:31:08 AM PST by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1)
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To: I cannot think of a name

You need to read the history on that.


29 posted on 01/08/2022 11:32:13 AM PST by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1)
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To: Reily

He wasn’t in a jeep.


30 posted on 01/08/2022 11:33:00 AM PST by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1)
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To: Rummyfan

Ping save. Great!


31 posted on 01/08/2022 11:37:59 AM PST by John S Mosby ( Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Sir_Humphrey

No..war criminal. There were high ranking German generals who tried to negotiate a separate peace so that Germany could devote all it’s might to the Eastern Front.


32 posted on 01/08/2022 11:54:57 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Rummyfan

Read: FDR’s Folly - How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression.


33 posted on 01/08/2022 12:04:39 PM PST by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: Rummyfan

FDR’s legacy was one of failure, but it mostly had to do with the 9 years prior to the war.


34 posted on 01/08/2022 12:18:31 PM PST by Renkluaf
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To: Captain Peter Blood

They were totally committed to Mancuria. Bomb the rail lines and they couldn’t return. That was the only possibility though except for Nukes.


35 posted on 01/08/2022 12:19:36 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (Let's go Brandon)
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To: Rummyfan

If I’m ever asked what vile, evil monster assumed power in 1933 and died in April 1945, my first answer is Franklin Roosevelt.


36 posted on 01/08/2022 12:52:16 PM PST by AlaskaErik (In time of peace, prepare for war.)
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To: Captain Jack Aubrey
"And Wilson was the first?"

Yes...
TR came close to making it a "first 3" threesome...

37 posted on 01/08/2022 1:27:05 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: Bonemaker

So the holocaust would have happened anyway? Those generals you refer to were still Nazis. Their only disagreement with Hitler was over military strategy.


38 posted on 01/08/2022 2:21:07 PM PST by Sir_Humphrey ( I wiIl not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own!i)
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To: Sir_Humphrey

Not really. The scumbags were SS. Wehrmacht, Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe brass were by and large mostly of the old school Prussian military and aristocratic stock and traditions. Honorable career soldiers. A separate peace would have put an end to the camps as part of the deal.


39 posted on 01/08/2022 2:45:17 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Bonemaker

Oh so there were good Nazis? Who knew?


40 posted on 01/08/2022 3:59:43 PM PST by Sir_Humphrey ( I wiIl not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own!i)
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