Interesting in 1972 an archived article about Harry S. Truman…
So nothing has changed and it just keeps going around and around…
Whereas Roosevelt tended to be flexible in coping with the Russians, Truman held sterner views. “If we see that Germany is winning the war, we ought to help Russia; and if that Russia is winning, we ought to help Germany, and in that way let them kill as many as possible.. . ” he said as a Senator in 1941. This basic attitude prepared him to adopt, from the start of his Presidency, a firm policy.
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Just look at what Truman said…
We go around and come around again…
WtR