My dad was one trigger pull away from giving Patton his war with Russia.
My thoughts are that a war with Russia at that time was not a good idea. We were still at war with Japan, and Russia had a non aggression pact with the Japs. What if Russia had then come in on the side of the Japs?
The industrial might of the USSR was beyond the Urals where we could not get to them. Russia also had control of Iran at that time. Our bombers would have had to fly through the same type anti-aircraft fire that isolated the German armies in Stalingrad.
It was later found that Russia had another army uncommitted to the war. It has been surmised that they may have invaded Alaska and moved East.
Americans were tired of war and another one would have been a PR disaster back home.
My dad was returned to the US to prepare for the invasion of Japan. Truman (bless him) ordered the dropping of the two nukes and the invasion never took place.
“We were still at war with Japan, and Russia had a non aggression pact with the Japs.”
News to me...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Japanese_War_(1945)
What you say is probably true. Americans were tired of war, but they carved up Europe and Iran and Iraq and then Israel. I mean, we’re paying the price now.