Why did Roosevelt have such a hard on for siding with England

because hitler was trying to take over europe

He was a socialist and globalist who adored communism and international banking. That should be pretty much all the explanation you need for why he hated Germany so much.

Hmm... why would Delano side with the liberal democracy over the rogue warmongering totalitarian state that had turned its back on international cooperation and repudiated its American debts...

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>>2058320

Keep up the banter.

>>2059602
>Stalinist Russia
>"liberal democracy"

>>2059623
Stalinist Russia was the enemy of his enemy. It was with the UK that Roosevelt had the greatest sympathy & cooperation with and they received the bulk of American aid.

>>2059635
FDR loved Stalin.

>>2059527
Primarily because the American people didn't want it. It was hard enough to drag them into WWI, and most folks were still regretting it.

If he had entered before Pearl Harbor, he'd be looking at massive opposition, both from congress and the general public. This was before the age where the president could basically instigate a war at will on his own and let congress catch up later.

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>>2059635
>>2059644
Yeah, FDR and Stalin got along real well (in FDR's defense, he might not have been aware of what all was going in there, and a lot of it happened after his death). Further, a good deal of FDR's policy was to put an end to colonialism, which caused a lot of friction between him and Churchill.

>>2059752
People who cared and had the means to stay informed were quite aware.

>>2059759
Few folks outside of Russia were aware of Holodomor, and the purge didn't really get into full steam into 38. Even today, folks debate whether they even happened, or at least to what extent, so it'd be easy for someone who personally liked Stalin to look the other way at the time.

If FDR had lived longer he might have changed his opinion, and Truman administration certainly 180'd America's attitude towards Russia.

>>2059775
>180'd America's attitude towards Russia.
*360'd - I forgot what domain I was on for a second there.

>>2059775
M8, the Bolsheviks started killing in 1917 and didn't slow down much until 1945. You basically went from the Terror to an even more dysfunctional Orwellian dystopia being held together by duct tape and sadness to social engineering through mass starvation to the Ostfront to the golden age of the Gulag. Transmission of these horrors was one of the main weapons of anti-communists in the West.

>>2059527
>he had a british accent
wut

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>>2059527
>is it because he had a british accent?

>>2059796
Pure ideology

>>2059835
What does that statement have to do with what I brought up?

>>2059874
I was about to relent and agree with you, but then this guy >>2059835 came in and decided to meme it up.

Maybe FDR was a bit of a socialist himself, in addition to an anti-imperialist.

>>2059527
He was just an Anglophile. There was a conflict between Anglophiles and Anglophobes in American culture and politics, and the Anglophiles eventually won out.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Taku_Forts_(1859)
Blood is thicker than water.

>>2060247
Not anglophobia, just a reluctance towards getting involved in foreign wars.

>>2059752
People had a pretty good grasp of the shit Stalin pulled, even if they couldn't assign a number to the death toll. Part of it was the sheer number of Whites and refugees running around--imagine how many Norks would bail today if the border was tens of thousands of miles long and they would never be deported back.

>>2059635
FDR didn't like the UK that much. UK was still an empire at the time.