“If the Russians hadn’t spent millions of lives, we never would have beaten Hitler.”
You forget we could have delivered atomic weapons to Europe by the fall of 1945.
“You forget we could have delivered atomic weapons to Europe by the fall of 1945.”
The also neglects how we were well poised to paralyze the German armed forces with the wholesale destruction of its oil industry, munitions industry, and transportation network. With or without the atomic bombs the Third Reich was being dismantled piece by piece by the United States and Great Britain no matter what the Soviets/Russians did or did not do.
By 1944 the United States had started to cancel more aircraft, warships, tanks, artillery, weaponry, and ground forces than had already been brought against Germany by the time of its surrender. Germany was destined to be ultimately destroyed by the United States one way or another.