"...Here was the key issue: while Britain and France hoped that an anti-aggression front would protect the independence of the states of Eastern Europe that had emerged from the defeat of all the great empires of central and eastern Europe in the World War, Germany wanted to terminate that independence; and it was her willingness to share the spoils with the Soviet Union that decided the latter to opt for agreement with Germany as opposed to simply standing aside…Moscow, like Berlin, had wanted an end to the independence of the new countries, wanted Germany to take the initiative, and was especially interested in terminating the freedom of Poland, and had only waited four clear signs that Berlin was indeed ready to pay for Soviet cooperation by an appropriate division of the booty." Weinberg, V. II, p. 607, 608.
FDR's view were very much consistent with both Hitler's and Stalin's, not Wilson's, or Britain's or France's.
FDR'S Washington, like "Moscow, like Berlin," wanted an end to the independence of the new countries, an end to Wilsonian Self Determination, but wanted Stalin rather than Hitler, "to take the initiative", but also wanted booty at the expense of the old European Empires globally rather than just Eastern European booty, "was indeed ready to pay (and had paid) for Soviet cooperation by an appropriate division of the booty", and was willing to, and did, leave Stalin the lion's share of Eastern Europe and its booty.
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