Because Ukraine is equally fascist and this still isn't my problem.
I'd like to be Tom Cruise, but that ain't happening, either.
Well, here's the problem: if Putin has been "at this for decades" and all he's managed to recover are a few small slivers of land in Moldova, Ukraine, and Georgia, then he certainly isn't Hitler. HItler managed to regain Austria, the Sudetenland and East Prussia in the span of a few years.
FDR vs the British Empire recounts FDR's confrontations with Winston Churchill during WWII on the need to end colonial economics.
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In fact, the British still control five colonies in the Caribbean. Barbados, which gained nominal independence in 1966, just became a republic last year, severing its political ties with the British Crown. The barbaric history of slavery in those islands has also by no means been forgotten.
Here in the United States, the history of British imperial oppression seems much more distant, of course. But as recently as the 1940s, President Franklin Roosevelt had to face off against British determination to hold onto its Empire, as he sought to form an alliance against the Nazi threat. It should be noted that, 160 years after losing the American colonies, the British Empire was alive and well in those years, spanning the globe from India to Africa and the Caribbean. And Roosevelt was dead set on ending it.
The following report on FDR’s confrontations with Winston Churchill on the subject comes from
As He Saw It,
[1] a book written in 1946 by FDR’s son Elliott, who participated with him at various conferences on war strategy. I believe FDR’s insights into the nature of Empire should give us pause, as we grapple with our own conduct as a republic today.
FDR to Churchill: End Colonialism
The first conflicts between FDR and Churchill which Elliott Roosevelt discusses occurred in Argentia, the Canadian harbor where the two met in August of 1941.
FDR came prepared for conflict. He told Elliott on the eve of his discussion that “Churchill told me that he was not his Majesty’s Prime Minister for the purpose of presiding over the dissolution of the British Empire. I think I speak as America’s President when I say that America won’t help England in this war simply so that she will be able to continue to ride roughshod over colonial peoples.”