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>If the Soviets started WW2
they did though. they started it together with the germans by jointly invading east europe. Even had a official paper about, the molotov-ribbentrop pact. This fact has just been memory holed since it goes against the mystified version of WW2 that has been boiled down to black and white, world creation mythos. Angles vs demons etc. No, western countries would never side with germans over soviets in the war under any circumstance, even if the former would not have pissed off UK with pointless terror bombing
Same reason that today west countries are extremely reluctant to fully commit to the destruction of vatnikstan: its physically far away from them. While german imperialism was a immediate threat right next to them. So their own skin was on the line.
If that were not the case instead of the half-assed WW2 everybody ended up with there was only one morally clear path from UK/US perspective. Don't interfere with massive bail outs, let Hitler kill Stalin and then focus on gunning down the germans once they were overstretched and bled out. War drags on for a couple more years, ends sometime in 1948 with Europe fully liberated from the imperialists that started it all. Japan was going to be a solo project of US more or less anyway due to geographic position. And their fate was sealed with Midway