He knew he had to ally with the US, not just Stalin.
He had no choice: either Hitler or Stalin, whoever won, would then come for him.
"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 in the Second World War to prop up a system of imperial domination against which they had been the first people to revolt. And it has been with genuine bewilderment that they find themselves today so generally reviled as its inheritor....."
Sir Michael Howard, Lessons Of History, "1945--End of an Era?"
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