@AmericanButterfly The Finnish-American relationship was actually still a bit more complicated during the war. Although the Finns didn't really ever believe in Germany's chances against the Soviet Union, already when Germany failed to capture Leningrad and Moscow as they planned, the Finnish leadership realised Germany is going to lose the war. After Stalingrad, the Finnish leadership started to actively seek means of detaching Finland from the whole war.
The Finns secretly contacted the Americans to try to negotiate a much earlier cease fire with the Allies, along with the Americans landing in Finland from the north (through northern Norway) to deal with the German troops in northern Finland. Finns wouldn't naturally aid the Germans in that scenario. The point was to have Americans in Finland so that the Soviets wouldn't try to occupy anymore.
However, the USA deemed that scenario impossible because such a northern operation would be too costly and not relevant enough under those circumstances, plus the Soviet Union, before the race to Berlin caught their whole attention, still wanted to annex (or turn into a communist puppet state) the whole Finland through an unconditional surrender, and thus wouldn't agree to any cease fire. So, funnily enough the Americans told Finns that their best bet is to keep fighting the Soviets like they have been doing, to avoid an occupation. Maybe Washington foresaw that when Germany starts to collapse, the Soviets will put all of their effort in getting as close to the Atlantic Ocean as possible. That indeed happened.
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@AmericanButterfly The Finnish-American relationship was actually still a bit more complicated during the war. Although the Finns didn't really ever believe in Germany's chances against the Soviet Union, already when Germany failed to capture Leningrad and Moscow as they planned, the Finnish leadership realised Germany is going to lose the war. After Stalingrad, the Finnish leadership started to actively seek means of detaching Finland from the whole war.
The Finns secretly contacted the Americans to try to negotiate a much earlier cease fire with the Allies, along with the Americans landing in Finland from the north (through northern Norway) to deal with the German troops in northern Finland. Finns wouldn't naturally aid the Germans in that scenario. The point was to have Americans in Finland so that the Soviets wouldn't try to occupy anymore.
However, the USA deemed that scenario impossible because such a northern operation would be too costly and not relevant enough under those circumstances, plus the Soviet Union, before the race to Berlin caught their whole attention, still wanted to annex (or turn into a communist puppet state) the whole Finland through an unconditional surrender, and thus wouldn't agree to any cease fire. So, funnily enough the Americans told Finns that their best bet is to keep fighting the Soviets like they have been doing, to avoid an occupation. Maybe Washington foresaw that when Germany starts to collapse, the Soviets will put all of their effort in getting as close to the Atlantic Ocean as possible. That indeed happened.