No one is embracing Nazis, so much as you are embracing communists. And guess again about American lives lost.Plenty of Americans died in Vietnam, killed by Soviet weapons. Had Patton ended that we would have saved millions of lives, all over the planet. And Cuba would be free.
Go polish your maltese falcon heinie. Add up the deaths on Korea and Vietnam and we lost around 90,000 dead. You are a raving lunatic if you think Patton’s insanity would have taken down the whole Red Army for less than that. We lost around 275,000 in all of the ETO, and North Africa. Stalingrad -alone- cost the nazis 300,000 dead. The eastern front cost the Germans several million dead.
And you come along and think you are going to take it down for less than 90,000. The Red Army in 45 was a brutal machine compared to 41.
And Patton’s idea of reforming and rearming nazi armies was even more insane.
And the main motivation of Patton was very misplaced compassion for the Germans. He was an extremely talented tactical leader, a second coming of Custer. But he was a strategic moron.
“No one is embracing Nazis, so much as you are embracing communists.”
No, I’m embracing our GI’s. You on the other hand, were sending them to the eastern front...to protect Germans.
There wasn’t a documented groundswell of American soldiers that were disappointed at VE day, and wished they could stay in Europe for an even nastier war. It was already extremely unpopular that they were facing being sent to fight Japan.
I suspect you have never been a grunt.