[Leaning Right]

> The troops were exhausted and we, and Germany, were running out of young men to draft <

Plus the Red Army of 1945 was not the Red Army of 1940. The Red Army of 1945 was a tough, experienced force lead by very capable commanders.

The United States probably would have won a US - Soviet war in 1945, but it would have been an awful, very bloody mess. Atomic bombs might have been necessary.

The US public never would have stood for any of that. Truman would have been impeached and removed from office.

[Mears]

“The US public never would have stood for any of that.”

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Exactly,and the Soviets WERE our allies-——we were hardly about to turn around and try to overrun them.

Some ideas just don’t make sense——and going into the Soviet Union in 1945 as an enemy is one of them.

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[Verginius Rufus]

Yes, the American public would not have supported a war against the USSR in 1945. When Germany surrendered, the war against Japan was expected to last quite a while longer—the public in May 1945 did not know about the atomic bombs. We had lost more than 400,000 men in the war—how many more would have been lost in a war with the Soviets, and how would victory have been achieved?