How so? FDR wanted to be in the fight the day Germany attacked Poland, but there was no way politically he could do it.
Yes, I didn’t say FDR wasn’t gullible. You don’t don’t fold a royal flush when your opponent has a four high.
Remember, Japan was deathly afraid of Russia after the Battle of Khalkhin Gal. Japan cancelled their planned invasion of Siberia.
We see that Japan had no fear of the U.S., as evidenced by their attack on Pearl Harbor. But they refused to declare war on Russia, after Germany. In fact, that results of that battle were the cause of Pearl Harbor, because the leaders who wanted to take Siberia fell out of favor, and the leaders who wanted to invade the U.S. became more influential. Even though Japan was obligated, by their alliance with Germany, to go to war with the USSR, they instead signed the Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact. That shows you the only country Japan really feared.
How many Americans (and others) lost their lives because of FDR kowtowing to Churchill?
**Remember, Japan surrendered because of how the Russians sliced threw their armies in Manchuria, not because the U.S. had bombed them into rubble. Japan wanted to pick their occupiers, and history showed they made the right decision.
If FDR an Churchill required the USSR to go to war with Japan immediately, how much sooner would the war in the Pacific have ended?
The USSR was desperate. The U.K. was desperate. Yet the agreements made by FDR were as if the U.S. was the desperate country.