The three amigos

Are these three the bestest friends in history?

Roosevelt
>Hated Churchill, saw him as a dinosaur of the old order in the way of his progressive vision of a global de-colonized world
>Saw Stalin as an uncivilized brute he could charm and manipulate, unaware that he was the fact the one being manipulated

Churchill
>Hated Roosevelt. Saw him as a disrespectful naive product of nepotism with no idea what he was doing. Would never say this to his face, and he realized Britain needed a close relationship with the US
>Saw Stalin as the true threat once Nazism was defeated, saw through his lies even though he aided the Soviets

Stalin
>Saw Roosevelt as a naive idiot he could manipulate
>Saw Churchill as a capitalist land lord of the old tyrannical order that was too dangerous to be allowed to do what he wanted. Had to manipulate Roosevelt against him

Its weird knowing everyone but churchill severely underestimated Stalin

I don't believe for a second that Roosevelt and Churchill hated each other.

I wonder what world would look today like if America hadn't been so anti-British empire

ya, no that's not at all how their dynamic worked at all. Guess you never read what they said about each other. Churchill commented on how Chamberlin was wrong to trust Hitler, but he was correct to trust Stalin after Yalta. FDR and Stalin got together really well, you can see this in Iran.

Stalin's whole act in Tehran was a big show to secure more Allied support.

Churchill repeatedly warned against trusting the Soviets as late as 1945. When he said pro-soviet things it was usually as a means to get more American support on an issue.

Everybody underestimated Stalin. Stalin portrayed himself as some rugged simple uncle but loved to read yet hid it from everybody. His bookshelves in his retreat at was on a revolving frame so it could be hidden from visitors. This is significant because Stalin was a legitimate Machiavellian political manipulator who would string along people for years before dealing with them in some other game of 4D Chess.

Keep in mind how he secured power from a group of intellectuals that all mocked his "rural" demeanor and outlook. He first sided with the center-left of the party (Zinoviev and Kamenev) against the far-left (Trotsky/Kerensky/etc.). When they were dealt with, he sided with the right of the party (Bukharin and Rykhov) against Zinoviev/Kamenev. When they were dealt with, he eliminated Bukharin and Rykhov because they had no other political allies left.

The negative result of this was that Stalin only was able to understand others through the same soulless pragmatism he had, so if you acted emotionally or irrationally (i.e. Hitler when he invaded Russia) he didn't see it coming and would break down. Stalin did not take failure well and would become quite depressed at the littlest thing, as opposed to Hitler who threw a short temper tantrum over it.

pretty much this. Thankfully FDR died before Potsdam and Truman didnt cuck out to Stalin at the negotiations

So Stalin is /ourguy/?