How could anyone have been so delusional about the Russian tyrant by then already drenched in so much blood?
A fresh start
[Per Kissinger] “America’s favorable geography and vast resources facilitated a perception that foreign policy was an optional activity.”
Because U.S. principles are assumed to be universal, the inclination to cooperate is assumed to be at least generally latent.
Hence Franklin Roosevelt’s reported assurances to his former ambassador to Moscow, William Bullitt: “I think if I give [Stalin] everything that I possibly can and ask nothing from him in return, noblesse oblige , he won’t try to annex anything and will work for a world of democracy and peace.”
This is the mind that decided we needed to fight in Europe and dragged the nation into it?
And to this day liberals revere FDR for that.
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