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I'm suggesting that Roosevelt's horrible understanding of economics would have driven him to perpetuate the war, just as it drove him to maneuver the United States into it (in both theaters) in the first place. He couldn't very well attack Britain or the recently "liberated" Europe; Japan and (half) of Germany were already under US monetary imperial control. That left The Soviet Union as an easy target for the next holy war to make the world "safe" for democracy. All Roosevelt would have needed was a trumped up pretext to attack, much like he created with Japan and Germany.

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Could we have some citations and references to support this, shall we say, "interesting" theory? In particular, evidence that Roosevelt had plans to prolong the war in Europe after victory over Germany. Also I'd like some cites for the "trumped up pretext to attack" - according to my history books Japan attacked Pearl Harbor without a formal declaration of war and Germany declared war on us a day later. That being said I will grant you that according to my reading Roosevelt had already taken sides on the European war and certainly was not looking to avoid a fight. I am not at all convinced he wanted to fight European and Pacific wars simultaneously.

There was another post about the Soviets essentially defeating the German Army on their own without significant assistance on the Western Front, etc. While there can be no question of the immense sacrifice and monumental contribution of the Soviets to the defeat of Nazi Germany the discrediting of the Western allies is a fairly severe understatement of their wartime contributions. America and Britain convoyed large amounts of supplies to the USSR, pounded Germany's industrial centers and cities from the air, fought the U-boat threat and conducted land campaigns in North Africa, the Balkans, Sicily and Italy as well as invading France. All of these things collectively served to scatter and reduce Germany's attention, manpower and industrial contribution to the Eastern front. The Western allies also were responsible for the codebreaking that led to numerous German setbacks. During this time America was also bearing the brunt of the Pacific war, not to diminish the efforts of the British, Dutch, Australians and New Zealanders who also fought.