You think that middle eastern people are different by the rest of the world. You mean their DNA has a problem? Do you ever heard about Babylon?
I said exactly the opposite:
In my opinion, the whole (...) routine is one of the key factors that allowed radical Islam to grow and expand in the past 60 or so years.
By that 'routine' I meant the US (or the West in general) propping up of despots like Saddam Hussein and Hosni Mubarak because they believed that was the lesser evil. Following the demise of Pan-Arabism, by denying the prospect of democracy, the West inadvertedly stood by while radical Islam promoted itself as a viable alternative.
Do you know that the German industry was superior against the industry of Soviet union. The Russian war industry was supported by the American British industry. Germans already were fighting in Africa against Britain and USA. The German defeat by the Russians is rather a legend.
Tell me, how many British and US soldiers fought at Kursk or Stalingrad (hint: not a single one)? Which country had the most casualties and had to pay the dearest price for victory against Nazi Germany (hint: the Soviet Union). Regarding American support, yes, lend-lease existed, but I think that it contributed comparably little to the Soviet war effort (perhaps with exception of the trucks provided by Lend-lease)- they only sped up the inevitable. But at that point (late 1941) it should be added that the British and Americans were overtly pessimistic how the Soviet Union would fare against Nazi Germany, which was one of the key factors for the Soviet Union to be included in lend-lease.
Of course we all know that Joseph Stalin was a nightmarish despot in his own right, but the Soviet Union made the biggest contribution towards defeating Nazi Germany, in particular in terms of fielding manpower and in terms of casualties.
You already have a caliphate. Iran.
Shia Islam doesn't do the "caliphate". Unless you count Ali, the fourth of the Rashidun caliphs (which is regarded with special providence in Shia Islam).
Churchill purpose was not stopping till they get to Moscow, but Roosevelt disagreed with him unfortunately.
Its called Operation Unthinkable, because that's what it would have ammounted to: doing the unthinkable. Churchill had the charming idea of re-arming German war-criminals against the Soviet Union. Basically World War III at the conclusion of World War II, a really great idea. We can all be thankful that this was cancelled off.
