Quote Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube View Post
No, I'm saying we put troops in europe to defend a frontline that was already there. You're trying to paint it as a "USAnian" conspiracy. Its mind boggling. All we did was be the best damned allies any European nation has ever had. I think its time we re-negotiated the terms.

Especially if you're representative in any way of the kinds of people we have been helping.
Nah, not at all.

The Frontline should have been where NATO is now - the US had the men and material to push back against Stalin after WWII, it elected not to bother. Subsequent American policies stem from nothing more altruistic than guilt.

You know who FDR was worried about after WWII?

Churchill and the UK - there's documented evidence of that, though he apparently realised Stalin was the real threat before he died.