To push Russia back to their 1938 boundaries, saving Europe and keeping us from facing the massive Russian war machine for generations into the future.
How different would America and the world be today if not for the Russian/Nazi alliance of WWII, and the Russians succeeding in empire building beyond their wildest dreams.
The only argument should be whether it could have been done, not whether it would have paid off.
Odd that international communism gained half the world under our socialist, ‘president for life’ who held the presidency through election after election, after election, and election, until he finally died in office.
No, the only argument is not whether it could have been done.
There is a moral argument as to whether the cost, in American, Russian and European lives, not to mention immense human suffering among the survivors, would be worth it.
Not everything we are capable of doing is worth the price.
Reasonable people can differ on whether fighting the Russians at the end of WWII would have been worth the price.
What cannot be argued is that the American people simply would not have agreed to do it. Nobody, luckily, in our society or government has the power to make such decisions and force everybody else to obey.
Such a society is an absolute monarchy or dictatorship. Which, BTW, sometimes make wiser long-term decisions than democracies or republics.