So Churchill shouldn't have allied with Stalin against Hitler?
They weren't really allies, more that they had a common enemy. As far as I know Churchill didn't send troops to help Stalin nor vice-versa. They fought on their individual fronts.
Churchill, Rooselvelt, de Gaulle (and/or Giraud) and Chang Kai-Shek were allies...
One could make a case that co-operation reached the point of alliance by the Tehran Conference of December '43, but prior to that, I would suggest not...
US was playing footsie with Saddam, Iran looked the bigger menace
But we must remember that the US was playing footsie with Saddam well before then. They worked with him in '59 in the attempted assasination of Quassim and they worked with in '63 to overthrow him. They provided the Ba'ath party the names of thousands of communists to liquidate (Saddam took over soon after '63). The helped install Saddam as Deputy leader in '68, leading to his ascension to power in '79.
The Qassim and Mossadeq cases also occurred in the context of a global struggle, of course.
Indeed. Traditional monarchists like the Shah and modern fascists like Saddam were evidently preferable to the democratically elected Mossadeq and the moderate republican nationalism of Qassim.
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They weren't really allies, more that they had a common enemy. As far as I know Churchill didn't send troops to help Stalin nor vice-versa. They fought on their individual fronts.
Churchill, Rooselvelt, de Gaulle (and/or Giraud) and Chang Kai-Shek were allies...
One could make a case that co-operation reached the point of alliance by the Tehran Conference of December '43, but prior to that, I would suggest not...
US was playing footsie with Saddam, Iran looked the bigger menace
But we must remember that the US was playing footsie with Saddam well before then. They worked with him in '59 in the attempted assasination of Quassim and they worked with in '63 to overthrow him. They provided the Ba'ath party the names of thousands of communists to liquidate (Saddam took over soon after '63). The helped install Saddam as Deputy leader in '68, leading to his ascension to power in '79.
The Qassim and Mossadeq cases also occurred in the context of a global struggle, of course.
Indeed. Traditional monarchists like the Shah and modern fascists like Saddam were evidently preferable to the democratically elected Mossadeq and the moderate republican nationalism of Qassim.