It's not like it wasn't explicit strategy of the US to try to work on two fronts -- defeat the NAZIs while also containing the Russians. At the end of the war a

It's not like it wasn't explicit strategy of the US to try to work on two fronts -- defeat the NAZIs while also containing the Russians. At the end of the war a giant rush to prevent Soviet takeover of swathes of Europe and the far east, and some historians have spent whole careers analyzing how seriously the Americans considered opening a new front against Russia right at the end of the war. And there were certainly strong voices in North America pre-WWII that saw Hitler as a fairly useful bulwark against the red menace. Despite the way popular history paints these things, the game that folks in the allied command played was not some grandiose good vs evil fight with two clear sides. It was complicated and dirty and awful things were done by everyone including the Americans.