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Witness The Unthinkable in WW2, Americans betray the Allied Forces UK and USSR.

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00:00The date was June 10th, 1943, a day that would live in infamy, but not for the reasons anyone expected.
00:08Across the battlefields of Europe, North Africa, and the vast Pacific,
00:12Allied soldiers were pushing back against the Axis powers.
00:16Hopes were, you know, cautiously rising.
00:19Then, the world broke.
00:22Without warning, American naval guns turned on the Royal Navy in the Atlantic.
00:26American fighter planes, once providing air cover for British bombers,
00:31instead tore them from the skies over the English Channel.
00:35In the East, coded messages, once promises of lend-lease aid,
00:39became declarations of hostility towards the Soviet Union.
00:43The unthinkable had happened.
00:45The United States had declared war on its own allies.
00:49Confusion was the first wave of this new, terrifying war.
00:53In London, air raid sirens wailed,
00:57but the bombers overhead bore the white star of the U.S. Army Air Forces, not the swastika.
01:03Winston Churchill, his face a mask of disbelief and fury,
01:08clutched a telegram from Washington.
01:11It was a formal, cold declaration of war.
01:14He reportedly slammed his fist on the cabinet table, scattering papers, roaring in outrage.
01:19In Moscow, Joseph Stalin received the news with a chilling silence.
01:25He had long suspected Western treachery,
01:28but this sudden, violent betrayal surpassed even his most paranoid nightmare.
01:32The chaotic war had just become a struggle for survival.
01:35A new, unimitably powerful American and British,
01:38who had shared rations side-by-side in the hills of Tunisia before,
01:41were now to kill each other,
01:42and American Sicily, hearing the uncle over his radio,
01:45German trick.
01:46British counterpart cross a small village squ-
01:49and raised a hand ting,
01:51only to be met a confused, hostile rut.
01:54The barter hood, forcible of combats to common foe,
01:58evaporated in an in.
01:59It was replayed, bewildered, sickening of betrayal,
02:02deeper than in it.
02:04Across the United States,
02:06citizens awoke, hunting headlines,
02:07and her scream to perfidy and Soviet-
02:09justific spun from whole-
02:12a government that had sud-
02:13violently, chains.
02:14Petered in stunned silent square,
02:17ruse tickers with wah-
02:18Sons and husbands in Europe were plung
02:21new kind of feared ones
02:22were no longer fighting along against tyranny.
02:25They were now horrifying new conflict.
02:27The chief or allied victory marches
02:29by the confused Angon nation torn from its anchor,
02:31and set a dray of treachery.
02:34The Quessals of Parliament to the Froh
02:35The Eastern Front
02:36The official reason Froh's preemptive self-defense,
02:40a cabal of IST politicians,
02:41communist-politic military leaders,
02:44he seized power and coup,
02:46and clay covered a plot.
02:48The Alen and the USSR parv up post-war Europe,
02:50marginalizing America,
02:51creating a new global dominated by British-imperial Soviet communism.
02:55Break of this new war,
02:56it and devastating antic,
02:57the wolf packs of boats,
02:58suddenly faves ignored.
02:59In massive U.S. Navy groups,
03:01intended for the esteemed East,
03:03they oil Navy's home fleet,
03:04ruthless,
03:05if fit.
03:05Envoys that had German attackers,
03:09were now undid by their former press.
03:11Battle of the Atlantic,
03:12once a struggle and survival,
03:14in a one-sided order.
03:17American remissory,
03:18come to the element of surprise,
03:20turned the ocean to a graveyard for shipping,
03:22actively blockading nation from the rest of them.
03:25Across Europe,
03:26lines dissolved into a chaos.
03:29In Italy,
03:30man structures fract,
03:31British divs,
03:32poised for the invading land,
03:33turned there on each other.
03:34American divs,
03:36poised for the invasion land,
03:37turned there on each other.
03:39Germans,
03:39initially bewildering,
03:40exploited the infight,
03:41launching counterattack,
03:42fragmented and confused Allied forces.
03:45In the skies over occupied France,
03:47RAF Spitfires engaged in desperate dogfights,
03:50with USAAFP-51 Mustangs.
03:53The very air,
03:54once a symbol of Allied cooperation,
03:56became a theater of fratricidal warfare.
04:00The war against Hitler was,
04:01for a time,
04:02forgotten in the bloody confusion.
04:04In the Pacific,
04:06the betrayal had equally dire consequences.
04:09The joint Anglo-American commands fell apart.
04:12Australian and New Zealander forces,
04:14fighting alongside Americans in New Guinea,
04:16were suddenly isolated,
04:18and faced with impossible choices.
04:21The flow of American supplies to the British and Commonwealth forces ceased overnight.
04:29Japan,
04:30reeling from defeats at Midway and Guadalcanal,
04:34was handed a golden opportunity.
04:36With its enemies now fighting each other,
04:38the Imperial Japanese Navy could regroup and launch new offensives,
04:42threatening to reverse hard-won gains.
04:45The vital lend-lease supplies flowing through the Arctic convoys in Iran were cut off.
04:50Worse,
04:51American long-range bombers,
04:52perhaps flying from newly seized bases in the UK,
04:55could now potentially target Soviet industry in the Urals.
04:58Stalin was forced to divert divisions from the front lines against Germany,
05:03to guard against a potential American attack from the east or from the south.
05:06This gave the beleaguered Wehrmacht a desperately needed reprieve,
05:10allowing them to stabilize their front and prolong the brutal war in the east.
05:16The world's geopolitical map was redrawn in blood and betrayal.
05:22Faced with a two-front war against the United States and Germany,
05:26the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union were forced into an alliance of pure desperation.
05:31Churchill, Stalin, ideological opposites now shared a single goal, survival.
05:38A grim, undersupplied struggle against the United States and Germany.
05:43The American leadership might offer Hitler a conditional peace.
05:49Cease hostilities in the west.
05:52Keep the conquered territories in the east.
05:55Act as a bulwark against the Soviets.
05:58A terrifying new axis could emerge.
06:01A pact between Washington and Berlin aimed at destroying the Soviet Union.
06:08Japan, too, might become a de facto partner,
06:11profiting from the collapse of the British Empire in Asia.
06:15The human cost would be immeasurable.
06:19The initial shock among soldiers and citizens would curdle into deep, lasting hatred.
06:24A British soldier who once admired American bravado would now see the American flag as treachery.
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