>>17846806Not very plausible. Yahweh was the local war god before the Jews started worshipping him exclusively, so all the genocidal/murdery stuff is because of that.
>>17847258I would disagree with that. There was a lot of support for Communism because it was one theoretical pathway to the fulfilment of the paradoxical ideals of the American and French revolutions of the 18th century, particularly personal liberty and social equality. The feeling among American elites in the early 20th century was that their society was a work in progress, but that an equilibrium of liberty and equality for all was its inevitable end state. Communism, to them, was a method of speeding that process up and forcing what they felt was inevitable to happen sooner and with less conflict.
>>17850310America hasn't been "autistically anti-Communist for the past 100 years". In the 1920s and 1930s there were a lot of prominent, wealthy Americans and American corporations who worked closely with the Soviet Union to develop and test new agricultural and industrial machinery. The middle ranks of the Roosevelt and Truman administrations of the 30s and 40s were also full of people who sympathized greatly with the Soviet Union and its ideology.
>>17851532That's fairly well-attested. Specifically, it is said that Roosevelt spent 1939-1941 trying to provoke Germany into declaring war, including by sending American arms and munitions to Britain, protecting British convoys using the US Navy, actively hunting German submarines in the Atlantic, and sending American troops to take over the British occupation of Iceland. When all of that failed to provoke Hitler into declaring war, Roosevelt doubled down on his other gambit instead, which was to provoke Japan into attacking the US and getting Germany into the war that way. It's also why, even though Japan attacked the US, the US prioritized defeating Germany - that was the real target all along.