Making the world safe for Bolshevism
Laurence Butler
Issue date: 4/21/09 Section: Commentary
Though he promised, "I will not send our boys to war," Franklin Roosevelt adopted an aggressively destructive foreign policy which ensured the emergence of communism as a global force by the end of the 1940s.
While FDR propped up Stalin with the import-export bank, subsidizing any business willing to invest in the U.S.S.R., the conflict in China was fluctuating between nationalist and communist forces. Because the Hitler-Stalin pact (to partition Eastern Europe) was still in effect, Stalin had a stronger position than he otherwise would have had and the confidence to start eliminating Germans in the U.S.S.R., sparking the Nazi invasion of Poland. Allied embargoes on Italy and Japan forced both of the former U.S. allies into an agreement with Nazi Germany while Stalin killed millions in the Ukraine-hardly the humanitarian aid FDR claimed his policies would support. Having sustained the Chinese conflict that would've yielded to the nationalist forces, otherwise enjoying majority popular support and Japanese approval, the scale was disastrously tipped in favor of communist forces with the destruction of the Japanese and the reinforced Soviet industry.
Embargoes on Italy and Japan necessitated an unwilling alliance with Germany, and while it was in the U.S.'s interest to keep Nazi Germany from sweeping west, it had resulted from France and England's declaration of war on Germany after the accelerated Polish invasion. It was well-publicized in his writings and ideologies that Hitler was aiming to expand east, and again Stalin and the Soviet Union received an exceedingly helpful hand from the FDR administration. The Lend-Lease program, which supplied all the war-making essentials to the allies in Europe, did not hold the Soviets accountable to pay off their debt, whereas Britain was paying until 2003. This combined with the hideous Bretton Woods Agreement, created by the self-named "fellow traveler" Henry Dexter White, which set national currency rates against one another and against gold. It held the American dollar as the reserve currency of the world and forced Britain off the gold standard as it overvalued the debt owed to the U.S. via the Lend-Lease. Britain could no longer afford to maintain its colonial structure with the weakened pound, while their ex-colonies created currencies with arbitrary values set by the World Monetary Fund. This left many nations with poor industry suddenly helpless in the post-war financial vacuum, and turned the now-impoverished nations to Bolshevism.
The Bretton Woods Agreement was signed into effect before the end of the war, while the Morgenthau Plan, which aimed to reduce Germany to an agricultural economy, dependent on industrial imports, was produced by the Treasury. While this eventually failed, ex-patriot Germans had donated money to the Vatican to supply food to starving Germans; FDR denied the proposition, as Germany would be importing food and less agriculturally centered. A weakened Germany would have been very advantageous for the Soviets, and Churchill would later say, "We killed the wrong pig." Churchill refused to sign and FDR finally kicked the bucket-a world saving oxymoron.
While FDR propped up Stalin with the import-export bank, subsidizing any business willing to invest in the U.S.S.R., the conflict in China was fluctuating between nationalist and communist forces. Because the Hitler-Stalin pact (to partition Eastern Europe) was still in effect, Stalin had a stronger position than he otherwise would have had and the confidence to start eliminating Germans in the U.S.S.R., sparking the Nazi invasion of Poland. Allied embargoes on Italy and Japan forced both of the former U.S. allies into an agreement with Nazi Germany while Stalin killed millions in the Ukraine-hardly the humanitarian aid FDR claimed his policies would support. Having sustained the Chinese conflict that would've yielded to the nationalist forces, otherwise enjoying majority popular support and Japanese approval, the scale was disastrously tipped in favor of communist forces with the destruction of the Japanese and the reinforced Soviet industry.
Embargoes on Italy and Japan necessitated an unwilling alliance with Germany, and while it was in the U.S.'s interest to keep Nazi Germany from sweeping west, it had resulted from France and England's declaration of war on Germany after the accelerated Polish invasion. It was well-publicized in his writings and ideologies that Hitler was aiming to expand east, and again Stalin and the Soviet Union received an exceedingly helpful hand from the FDR administration. The Lend-Lease program, which supplied all the war-making essentials to the allies in Europe, did not hold the Soviets accountable to pay off their debt, whereas Britain was paying until 2003. This combined with the hideous Bretton Woods Agreement, created by the self-named "fellow traveler" Henry Dexter White, which set national currency rates against one another and against gold. It held the American dollar as the reserve currency of the world and forced Britain off the gold standard as it overvalued the debt owed to the U.S. via the Lend-Lease. Britain could no longer afford to maintain its colonial structure with the weakened pound, while their ex-colonies created currencies with arbitrary values set by the World Monetary Fund. This left many nations with poor industry suddenly helpless in the post-war financial vacuum, and turned the now-impoverished nations to Bolshevism.
The Bretton Woods Agreement was signed into effect before the end of the war, while the Morgenthau Plan, which aimed to reduce Germany to an agricultural economy, dependent on industrial imports, was produced by the Treasury. While this eventually failed, ex-patriot Germans had donated money to the Vatican to supply food to starving Germans; FDR denied the proposition, as Germany would be importing food and less agriculturally centered. A weakened Germany would have been very advantageous for the Soviets, and Churchill would later say, "We killed the wrong pig." Churchill refused to sign and FDR finally kicked the bucket-a world saving oxymoron.
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