They were all scurrying to sign up Germany to a deal at that...

They were all scurrying to sign up Germany to a deal at that time. When Chamberlain tried to make a separate peace deal with Germany that was OK because it was the UK and when the UK and US do something its OK morally and accords with the Rules Based Order because, come on, its the UK US doing it so it must be right BUT if Russia does it, well that was wrong. Yeah well, you know what you can do with that usual US/UK hypocritical BS that hasn't stopped since WW2.