SeigSoloyvov wrote:No that's what they said, that the USSR saved us from the Germans.
Also cute historical revisions, we did not wait, the government wanted to get into ww2 sooner but the public wasn't for it, America was different back then.
He'll we wanted to attack Japan before they attacked us but we couldn't because the public did not what war, it wasn't until pearl harbor we got the excuse we wanted.
Hence why we lied and said German planes where at Pearl harbor justify declaring war on them
Firstly, no, the SU was not going to attack Germany back in 1941 - it is nonsense constructed on a wave of anti-Russian propaganda of the 90s.
As the guys have already said, the Soviet Union has spent an entire decade opposing Hitler.
Offering not only political and material support but a direct military intervention when needed.
SU was the last country that dealt with Germany anyhow, and only because no such agreements could be signed with the other European powers.
Ironically, Poland signed a pact with Hitler much earlier, where both sides agreed on the spheres of interest in a third country, behind its back. The sole thing that differed the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact from Ribbentrop-Beck one, was its smaller scale limited to a few dozen km2.
Secondly, the Soviet Union saved your Murican arses directly, if only considered from a wider perspective.
If they would lose to Hitler, it would lead to allied Europe back in the 40s.
Europe allied under fascism/nazi ideology, with all the Soviet resources.
Outnumbering you 2:1, and having a different idea of Monroe doctrine.
You would have imperial Japan in Asia keeping their eyes on the whole Pacific, with nazi based united Europe - the second having clear interests and connections in South America.
They would have wiped you out from the map, just like in "The Man in the Iron Castle" or "Vaterland".
Thirdly, what the Roosevelt administration was doing, was a directly pushing Japan into the war, which escalated in the 30s. This was a clear breach of the Monroe Doctrine, showing already that "the rule-based order" means to the US rules that are being figured out by them and applied to the others, not them.