Why did the West betray Spain during it's most crucial hour?

Due to prevailing public opinion stemming from the unsatisfactory conclusion to WW1 the US was firmly committed to isolationism despite Roosevelt having pro-republican sympathies and attempting to send a small amount of arms to Spain through France. Recently passed "Neutrality Acts" meant that the US could not legally trade arms with ANY belligerent power.

>>2393014
>Why were the only nations that supported the Republic turn out to be the Soviet Union and fucking Mexico.
Because they were literally anarcho militant atheist commies and those were the only two governments that sympathized with that bullshit.

France wanted to help, but the Eternal Anglo diplomatically prevented France from doing so.

You seem to think the Republic was "true Spain" for whatever reason.

>>2393026
The republican insistence on doing this kind of crap: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Terror_(Spain)

Didn't help, this however is something both the USSR and Mexico sould understand having both done similar shit
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristero_War

>>2393014

Franco was a faggot and a fucktard, but the Republic was a complete disaster.

>>2393014
Why would the dominant colonial powers (one a fucking monarchy) be supporting fucking commies?

>>2393014

Because of the upper classes (that ruled said "democracies") silent support for fascism.

/thread.

>>2393026
Uh, the communists supported by the USSR had interests conflicting those of the anarchists.

>>2393473
>Uh,
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>>2393014
>Hey lets support the unstable republic which essentially is an unstable coalition of anarchists, commies and socialists.

>Oh btw the world is burning elswhere. Japan is acting up and germany is rapidly rearming and becoming threatening.

>Francos Government actually was easy to control.

>>2393126
This.

If you want a less of a meme response: Brit and American strategy at the moment was to pacify Hitler and try to be ok with him, so they didn't want to spoil this balance by supporting the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War, which might have been an early proxy war for the WWII.

I mean, you have to remember that Hitler and Mussolini actively helped Franco.

>>2393040

It was a democratically elected government, the only period when Spain was having something even remotely close to the liberal democratic system existing in the Allied countries. They allowed fascim to rule our country for FORTY fucking years, and then in 1939 they went to a World War against the nazis to "fight fascism".

Fuck you.

>>2393499
Yes also this. Pure geopolitics. WWII was not about "defeating fascism" for England or USA, at all.

>>2393515
It was in that a big reason Britain & America became hostile to Nazi Germany in the first place was their mad dog style of aggressive militarist expansion that was upsetting the stability of Europe and reviving the spirit of the nation through the crucible of war was a pretty big tenet in fascist ideology.

>>2393493
>'Uh' is a reddit word

>>2393528
Yes, but he his point was, that if Germany hadn't expanded so rapidly and dropped that part of the Fascist-ideology, Britain&America would have let Germany be fascist

>>2395149
Cramming exclamations into written text like a retard is a reddit/salon/tumblr trademark.

>>2395328
Fourteen words too much for you anon?

>>2393014
It was quickly apparent that the choice was to either back the Catholic fascists or the Leftist coalition which would (as always) become subservient to Moscow. Prior to the Anschluss the West looked at the USSR as the greater threat, so not backing the Republic was the prudent move.

Like usual, the Commies used other leftists as cannon fodder in the hopes that they could seize control after the Francoists were defeated.

>>2393014
Why would the west support communists?

>>2395390
Uh anon like UGH like you know geez um like wow like totally like ummmm like you're like a total faggot yeesh

>>2393014
It was funny

>>2393040
they certainly had more legitimacy than Franco

>>2393508

Being democratically elected is only one infinitesimally small element to a nation's legitimacy.

The key to a government's legitimacy is the faithful effort preserve and advance the nation. Pat of that is defending it's identity and heritage.

The Spanish republicans forfeited their legitimacy when they and their proxies waged a campaign of terror on Spanish identity, with their main target being Spain's catholic institutions.