Instead, they rushed the course before the Henry Fords and George P Bushs could lay the domestic groundwork and instead went, "Fuck it, let's let Germany weaken itself and all of its opponents, and we'll swoop in and plant our flag when it's ripe."
Yeah but they couldnt wait, they needed the imperialist spoils of war to keep their economy going
Western Europe and the US had substantial fascist movements, but the thing about militant nationalism is it dredges up intractible grudges which cannot be easily resolved.
As much as Henry Ford or Churchill would've liked a German conquest of the USSR, Nazis had to fight the French and the Brits and yanks had to defend them.
If Hitler didn't threaten and attack the Western Allies (and their imperial ambitions), they wouldn't have given a shit to what he does in Eastern Europe. They would've sucked Hitler's dick if Hitler was nice to them.
