1stRambo
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Yo, I say yes, and all of the "Socialist Democrat Party and it`s Propagandist Media" can kiss President Trumps Ass!!!
Sounds like Obama learned from this appeaser!!!
As you read, let`s not forget what kind of man Joseph Stalin was: Communist and Mass Murderer!!!
Seeds of Appeasement
In truth, Roosevelt exercised such control over negotiations and involved the State Department so little that “American diplomacy” during the war was more accurately termed “Roosevelt’s diplomacy.” Military analyst Hanson Baldwin wrote that Roosevelt “liked to transact business…on a man-to-man basis [and] depended heavily upon personal emissaries…and upon his own judgment…” This confidence led Roosevelt to suggest to Churchill that he lead negotiations with Stalin, writing,
“I think I can handle Stalin better than your Foreign Office or my State Department.” But Roosevelt’s confidence was misplaced. Sociologist Robert Nisbet wrote that before Tehran “Roosevelt had never met Stalin and knew almost nothing about Soviet affairs except what he had been told by his ambassadors to Russia.” And even this information was compromised by his tendency to dismiss ambassadors who were too critical of the Soviets.
One adviser Roosevelt did trust was Harry Hopkins, who had been a close aide since the president’s first term. Hopkins, wrote diplomat William Bullitt, “in his infinite ignorance of foreign affairs, considered Stalin appeasable” even before the United States entered the war. But, Bullitt continued, “There was no basis whatsoever in fact for this conclusion. It was sheer ostrich infantilism.” As America drew near to war, Roosevelt and Hopkins devised a plan to aid and appease Stalin in the hopes of convincing him to adopt Western ideas of freedom and democracy. Bullitt, whose initially high opinion of the Soviets had come crashing down during his tenure as America’s first ambassador to Soviet Russia, tried to convince Roosevelt to abandon the strategy, arguing that Stalin was an incorrigible tyrant bent on expansion. Roosevelt responded,
Bill, I don’t dispute your facts, they are accurate. …I just have a hunch that Stalin is not that kind of a man. Harry says he’s not and that he doesn’t want anything but security for his country, and I think if I give him everything I possibly can and ask for nothing from him in return, noblesse oblige, he won’t try to annex anything and will work with me for a world of democracy and peace.
This opinion would not only be contradicted by future events, it was contradicted by recent history. Stalin had not only joined Hitler in attacking Poland in September 1939, he had attacked Finland later that year and occupied Estonia, Latvia and parts of Romania in 1940. These were actions that Roosevelt himself had condemned, making his newfound belief in Stalin as an agent of peace an impressive feat of mental gymnastics.
www.thegreatfiction.com/2017/10/30/how-fdr-appeased-stalin-and-sowed-the-seeds-of-the-cold-war/
"GTP"
Sounds like Obama learned from this appeaser!!!
As you read, let`s not forget what kind of man Joseph Stalin was: Communist and Mass Murderer!!!
Seeds of Appeasement
In truth, Roosevelt exercised such control over negotiations and involved the State Department so little that “American diplomacy” during the war was more accurately termed “Roosevelt’s diplomacy.” Military analyst Hanson Baldwin wrote that Roosevelt “liked to transact business…on a man-to-man basis [and] depended heavily upon personal emissaries…and upon his own judgment…” This confidence led Roosevelt to suggest to Churchill that he lead negotiations with Stalin, writing,
“I think I can handle Stalin better than your Foreign Office or my State Department.” But Roosevelt’s confidence was misplaced. Sociologist Robert Nisbet wrote that before Tehran “Roosevelt had never met Stalin and knew almost nothing about Soviet affairs except what he had been told by his ambassadors to Russia.” And even this information was compromised by his tendency to dismiss ambassadors who were too critical of the Soviets.
One adviser Roosevelt did trust was Harry Hopkins, who had been a close aide since the president’s first term. Hopkins, wrote diplomat William Bullitt, “in his infinite ignorance of foreign affairs, considered Stalin appeasable” even before the United States entered the war. But, Bullitt continued, “There was no basis whatsoever in fact for this conclusion. It was sheer ostrich infantilism.” As America drew near to war, Roosevelt and Hopkins devised a plan to aid and appease Stalin in the hopes of convincing him to adopt Western ideas of freedom and democracy. Bullitt, whose initially high opinion of the Soviets had come crashing down during his tenure as America’s first ambassador to Soviet Russia, tried to convince Roosevelt to abandon the strategy, arguing that Stalin was an incorrigible tyrant bent on expansion. Roosevelt responded,
Bill, I don’t dispute your facts, they are accurate. …I just have a hunch that Stalin is not that kind of a man. Harry says he’s not and that he doesn’t want anything but security for his country, and I think if I give him everything I possibly can and ask for nothing from him in return, noblesse oblige, he won’t try to annex anything and will work with me for a world of democracy and peace.
This opinion would not only be contradicted by future events, it was contradicted by recent history. Stalin had not only joined Hitler in attacking Poland in September 1939, he had attacked Finland later that year and occupied Estonia, Latvia and parts of Romania in 1940. These were actions that Roosevelt himself had condemned, making his newfound belief in Stalin as an agent of peace an impressive feat of mental gymnastics.
www.thegreatfiction.com/2017/10/30/how-fdr-appeased-stalin-and-sowed-the-seeds-of-the-cold-war/
"GTP"
