Sir Michael Howard, The Lessons Of History, "1945--End Of An Era?", pb, p 134 :
"Only one thing could have prolonged the existence of the European Empires--the continuing approval and support of the United States. It was the denial of that support that spelled the end of the old European Empires. The citizens of the United states had not joined the Second World War to prop up a system of imperial domination against which they had been the first to revolt. And it has been with genuine bewilderment that they find themselves today so generally reviled as its inheritors." My underlining.
I would just add, the US' entry into WWI, had been, even more so, based on the above rationale. See: Russia Leaves The War, Kennan, "Wilson and the War Aims".
Reading Beschloss, The Conquerors, and also Kennan somewhere (Memoirs?), it seems that Roosevelt actually believed, until the end, that Nazism was, and had been from the beginning, an aristocratic imperialist movement, similar to that of Wilhelmine Germany before and during WWI which Roosevelt so detested, yet had holidayed there many times.
I would just add, the US' entry into WWI, had been, even more so, based on the above rationale. See: Russia Leaves The War, Kennan, "Wilson and the War Aims".
Reading Beschloss, The Conquerors, and also Kennan somewhere (Memoirs?), it seems that Roosevelt actually believed, until the end, that Nazism was, and had been from the beginning, an aristocratic imperialist movement, similar to that of Wilhelmine Germany before and during WWI which Roosevelt so detested, yet had holidayed there many times.
Check posts elsewhere on this blog to see how dominated the colonists were. Terms search: Allison
Rather like wanting to get rid of the Roman Empire, so you can then have a nice, long, anarchic, Dark Ages.
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