[BringBackMyHUAC]

"Not at all - Most of Eastern Europe was allied to the Nazis - no American was going to fight to save former Nazi allies."

I don't think Patton was primarily interested in saving Eastern Europe per se. He wanted to kill the cancer of Soviet Communism before it had a chance to spread any further.

[Destro]

Patton also believed in reincarnation. No American was willing to die for Nazi allies Hungry, Romania, Bulgaria and the Baltic republics which soiled their cause during the war years. A case can be made for trying to save Poland - but we still had Japan to fight.