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."
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."
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.