Because capitalists are not ideological, they only do what benefits them in the short term. Sometimes this means cooperating for common interest, other times it means vying with each other for power. They don't give a shit if communists are fundamentally incompatible with them beyond immediate convenience.
Capitalists always side with each other against communis-
Blake Hall
Carter Watson
Stalin himself argued that contradictions between capitalist powers could grow to the point that it overrides the contradiction between the capitalist world and the growing socialist one.
WWII is an example of this even though the socialist world was just the USSR and the Mongolian Peoples Republic at the time. Hell, WWI is an example of this to an extent, even though 1917 posed a threat to their entire world order and the threat of insurrection at home was very, very likely the capitalist powers couldn't stop killing each other long enough to stop Bolshevism. When they finally ended the war they attempted to act in unison to respond to the threat (Germany, US, Britain, France, Japan all backing the whites) but eventually they kinda fell out as they started bickering with each other while realizing that the situation with the whites was already lost.
Britain and France, were more concerned with punishing Germany than they were in stabilizing the Weimar Republic against possible communist insurrection.
Still, in spite of all this, the West held a united front against communism during the Cold War. France's split with the USA under DeGaulle was a minor event. Only France had the power and will to challenge the US for dominance while the capitalist world faced the communist enemy–and France came up short. Hence, the French establishment now licks the boots of Washington despite being the principle capitalist threat to US dominance post-WWII.
Macron said he'd build a European army to challenge America but his anti-Russian rhetoric employed during the showdown with the yellow vests implies he will probably back down against the US while facing insurrection at home.
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Wyatt Anderson
Because alliances are usually formed much more on pragmatical than on ideological grounds.
Colton King
Do you guys have any links, were I can read about this?
Jose Flores
Because the nutsacks attacked their allies before they attacked the ussr.
Also the USA was not in the war because they were half nazis already but then japan decided, for whatever reason, that they needed hawaii, so now the USA declared war on Japan, and since japan and germany were in a union the USA also had to declare war on germany and get involved there because if youre already at war might as well try to take control of europe before the evil commies take all of it.
Anthony Williams
Except that's not what happened. Nazi Germany declared war on the United States after Pearl Harbor.
Carson Edwards
It wasn't even Hawaii, it was the Philippines iirc. America said it would defend the Philippines if attacked and the Japs took this as gospel and tried to get in the first punch.
This is funny because the only reason they did it was because Nazis are spooked out their mind and someone said to Hitler something along the lines of "Empires declare war, the weak are declared upon".
The US would have probably gone for the Nazis first either way though, since they didn't want the Soviets having Europe.
Cameron Walker
hitler was told dozens of times to stop invading other countries through appeasement. When he stopped listening and invaded poland after a final warning, the west declared war
Bentley Allen
I don’t think that is true. Ultimately WW2 was still an imperialist war like WW1. Germany, Japan and Italy were grabbing clay and instituting puppet governments, and it was encroaching on the allied power block. Even if the Nazis were attacking the enemy of the allies, the USSR, it would have represented an expansion of German empire that may have not been tolerable. It could be preferable to have that power broken between two countries at odds, the USSR and Germany.
But to suggest the US felt any good will towards Russia is ridiculous. The USSR were obviously considered a threat since 1917 and the Russian civil war when they were invaded. Furthermore, the US played all of its normal media tricks, propagating retarded stories about how Lenin nationalized women in Russia, and sort of DPRK unicorn-tier nonsense. The USA elite is not made up of total idiots though. Having Japan literally attack them while Europe is totally consumed with Germany and allied fascist governments was not good for the US because it destabilized world power by bringing key countries like France and the UK under the umbrella of the Nazi empire. Allying with the USSR was necessary to save Western Europe for them and maintain hegemony. In fact, it clearly was a net gain for the US, totalizing their place at the top of western hegemony for almost a century.
Angel Rogers
The Japanese reasoning for entering the war was actually fairly sound from their perspective as they were on the verge of collapse due to allied embargoes, so they stuck out to secure the resources they could
taking US islands was mostly to try and form a defensive line to bleed out the Americans in hopes of negotiated peace, their real goal was British and Dutch controlled southern asia