[Kevmo]

Oh, and while our young men were dying in the war against Japan, Stalin observed a truce with them until the final months of the war in 1945.
***Stalin STARTED world war 2 alongside Hitler when they split up Poland in 1939 as allies.

I sometimes wonder why we didn’t just invade from Alaska. Knock out Russia and Japan and run all the way out to Germany.

[kearnyirish2]

Yes, when people throw WWII terms around to attempt to galvanize public support for another foreign misadventure, they are living in the past - the country that was blissfully ignorant of many of the inconvenient truths of WWII is gone, and after Vietnam very few people believe the government enough to risk our young men.

Britain and France went to war to defend Poland, and after Britain in particular spent so much blood and treasure (eventually losing most of the empire), Stalin ended up keeping the Poland they sought to protect.

There are still a lot of eastern Europeans in my area in NJ, and they don’t view WWII as any kind of crusade. Many fled the fruits of “victory”, and tend to be much more cynical of government lies than the average American...

[Does so]

" I sometimes wonder why we didn’t just invade from Alaska."

We had our hands full just keeping Japan from taking over the Aleutian Islands. (Not to mention Dutch Harbor, AK).

[jmacusa]

Invade from Alaska? Good Lord no. Take a look at the near disaster the Aleutian Campaign was. Knock Japan and Russia out? How? Attack Russia from east of the Urals? And how would you knock out Japan? The Battle of Okinawa was one of the most epic bloodbaths of WW2. It pretty much decided the use of the bombs as opposed to invading Japan.