FDR promised peace, yet as the decade progressed, he was maneuvering United States toward showdown with Nazi Germany and with Japanese Empire. war that found United States allied with Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union could not be conducive to freedom and democracy, however defined. ..…
The Soviet Union, at the time, was allied with the U.S., Britain, Canada and other nations who formed an alliance to defeat Nazi Germany and the nations that supported Hitler. . ..…
Thus the governments on the periphery of EU are forced to accept the dictates of the more powerful members of the Union, Germany in particular. ..…
Like Trump, the former four-star general has rightly called on NATO members to do more to support alliance security. It betrays the notion of friendship that nations such as Belgium, Germany, and Italy continue to starve their militaries of investment. ..…