What if Patton got his wish and invaded the USSR after WWII ended?
What would we have done with Russia if we’d conquered it? Turned them into Republicans? It’s a dictatorship, always has been.
What could have happened would be a lot more American lives lost, but then no Eastern bloc.
Russia itself might have been broken up with Belarus, the Baltic states, Caucasian states etc. freed and Russia split into Moscowy, Siberia, Novgorod etc.
hundreds of thousands probably killed and wounded with little to show for it.
It would not have happened. The world was war weary and there was no stomach for more war. That was a fantasy that could not happen. The Russians would have fought and fought hard and probably have beaten us.
I’m convinced that he was bluffing to keep them from trying something. He would have known what a bloodbath it would be.