Actually i was thinking more along the lines of not stopping Patton and the 3rd army and let them run all the way to Moscow before the war ended.
Every time we quit a war it comes back to bite us..
As a kid I thought it odd that he would have known that the Soviets were our enemies back then. But even though they may be an allie (sp?) at the time, they were still against the very ideals of America - and most folks saw that perhaps.
That said, I wonder how we would have fared going up against the Soviets at the time? I know Hitler sure got beat up bad by them - and their weather! And public opinion may not have held for that extended campaign that we had started against an “allie”. I imagine books have been written on the subject.
Oh, I know, but his plan included changing alliances and joining up with the (shattered) Wehrmacht and Waffen SS. It had to; the Red Army had a staggering level of men under arms and firepower at the close of the war, far more than the US and UK had, and they didn’t demobilize for real until the Warsaw Pact disintegrated in the 1980s (thank you and bless you, Poland!).
Politically Patton’s plan was unachievable, and probably wasn’t within military feasibility either (and I’m a big, huge fan of Patton and his abilities). After the nukes went off and Japan surrendered, Truman should have told Stalin to stfu, forget about anything in the Far East (because the USSR never fired a shot against Japan until Germany was ground into dust), and btw, get out of eastern Europe. It was a major failure not to use that advantage while we had it.