Wednesday, October 02, 2013

Some reflections on World War II

Today there is much in the news about some World War II veterans being denied by the White House access to some memorials in Washington D.C.

Go here if you want to bone up on World War II.

So much for America’s best President. At Yalta, he proves himself an ass. Has any other President ever been so absolutely dominated in foreign policy as FDR was at Yalta?

When the US finally joins the war, it does so with – as best as one can decipher – only a few clear war aims: 1) demanding unconditional surrender (of Germany and Japan – aka the only bulwarks against Soviet domination of post-war Europe and Asia); 2) establishing the United Nations; and 3) ending European (excluding Soviet) colonialism.

Stalin outsmarted FDR and Churchill. “He was perhaps the most politically adroit of all the principals, Allied and Axis.”

In the end, it appears that Churchill fought to preserve empire, Roosevelt for financial gain, and Stalin fought for territory. Churchill lost.

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