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To: Retain Mike

Sometimes you see people saying we should have fought the Russians after Germany surrendered. They don’t realize just how desperate the U.S. manpower situation was by 1945.


11 posted on 05/25/2015 8:58:27 AM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels." --Tom Waits)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep
Sometimes you see people saying we should have fought the Russians after Germany surrendered.

I've seen that too. But what would the goal have been? To destroy the Red Army? To take Warsaw? To take Moscow?

With limited aims, the Western Allies probably would have won, mainly because of their superior air power. Even then it would have been a bloody mess.

13 posted on 05/25/2015 9:06:24 AM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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