Um... Russia is vast and the winters long and cold. Ask Hitler and Napoleon.
It might not have been as easy as Patton wanted it to be.
I read a couple of books. Hated the Russkies more than the Nazis. At least with the Nazis he knew what to expect. But the Russkies were backstabbers, accdg to his autobiography.
>>Um... Russia is vast and the winters long and cold. Ask Hitler and Napoleon.<<
No one in history has defeated the Russian winter. Game of Thrones would never have been written in Russia b/c “Winter is coming” is meaningless where it is always winter.
Just as well we stayed OUT.
After what the 3rd Army had gone through...it would have been a coin toss at the best.
A land war wasn’t necessary. Before the Soviets got “the bomb” we held all the cards.
Drop a nuke on Kamchatka, some place void of people with Moscow forewarned to ensure anyone near ground zero could be moved clear. Let them know the next would hit a sparsely populated area and keep upping the ante until they abandoned Eastern Europe and East Germany.
All our ground forced would be needed for was shielding Western Europe until Stalin threw in the towel or was forcibly removed from power.
It is the place where superior air power would have won the day
Sadly the Russian mentality is thatbof slave so they would have reverted as they have now to being led by a strong dictator. It is in their blood
We were the only country with atomic weapons. We could have and should have subdued the planet. If not for communist like the Rosenbergs, we would have.
They wouldn’t have had to burn Moscow. We would have done it for them. Curtis LeMay was the right man for the job.