FDR on Stalin: "I think that if I give him everything I can and ask of him nothing in return, noblesse oblige, he won't try to annex anything and will work with me for a world of democracy and peace."
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this is only slightly less stupid than whatever stalin said about hitler as barbarossa was spinning up
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jesus fucking christ and then at yalta in exchange for russia attacking japan in manchuria FDR sells Chiang down the river and lets russia take china postwar this is insane this fucking guy
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stalin let mao know about this. at this point mao pulled out of negotiations with the US and the Nationalists
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FDR didnt even bother telling his China envoy Hurley about this much less Chiang
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also everyone was a soviet or maoist spyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerasia
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also the CCP was actively cooperating with the japanese and they locked up american attaches when they found out god i am so mad about this mccarthy was right about everything
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Wait, the CCP collaborated with Imperial Japan DURING their expansion into China?
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Replying to @sachinmaini
toward the end of the war, so they say sourced from The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom
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the specific mission locked up was referred to as the Spaniel Mission after a dog the Americans took along--I didn't find anything about this on a cursory google search
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Replying to @eigenrobot @sachinmaini
Yes, I think this is true. I knew heard anything about it until about a month ago. Interesting you are mentioning it here.
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