"Stalin's War" is a great book, but it never answers, & only presumes, the motive for FDR's give-away for Stalin. Why did he do it? Commie idiot? It may be true that FDR was incurious & let someone like Henry Dexter White buffer him, but he did have a vision to remake Europe.

https://twitter.com/DavidCarlsonII/status/1940493416359776380

FDR was an early Anglophobe & broke with many of his fellow WASPs. When in college, he wrote an essay on defending the Boers. He was even a bit of a Teutonophile until World War 1 & he was disgusted with the devastation across Europe. He hated Empire & wanted to save the world.

"Evangelical-Humanism" was the universal Anglo-Saxon drive to care & uplift all dark peoples through a world-system. It could motivate slave-owners as much as abolitionists, & influenced liberal thought on the Continent & America. It's an idea that has modified but reigns still. Its origins begin both in the Newtonian-Lockean consensus & the emotive style of Methodism. The fires of the American & French Revolutions transformed Whiggery towards Universal Uplift, justifying the Empire as the agent of moralizing Christian Charity (contrary to republicanism)

Self-Deleting Thread on the Rise & Fall of New England: it began not so much as a Puritan stronghold, but a royal fishing corporation, inspired by Spanish conquests, to trade with the Indians & to establish protective forts. Puritans fleeing the Stuarts made this their means. The first were Separatists (Plymouth) who thought the Church of England was doomed, but this was quickly subsumed by Puritans (Mass Bay). They forged Christian Republics, where church membership granted citizenship. They were there for the Reformation, using the Atlantic trade.

While not as convoluted & fake as the so-called Nestorian controversy, the Arian controversy is coated in fake pieties & mythology that convolutes what was even at stake or how it was ultimately resolved. The roots of the Arian controversy go back to 3rd c. Syria around the controversial episcopate of Paul of Samosata, who not only was arrogant, acted like a magistrate, paid for female to sing praises to him, betrayed Rome (for Palmyra), but taught a disturbing "Two Sons" dogma

"Nestorianism" is a fake "heresy", no one even knows what it means, that why there was another 200 years of total confusion of terms until the Arabs conquered the Roman East & it was subsumed into the ahistorical consciousness of the masses & ecclesiastical litany. It starts with Constantinople: the New Rome was imperially elevated to the patriarchate, using spurious martyr stories to claim equality with the pentarchy. This created a bitter rivalry with Alexandria. Egypt was a province that did not contribute demographically to The City.