[ppaul]

None of which changes the fact that there was no national will in 1945 to begin a new war against the Soviets.

New war? We were already at war! Patton wanted to conduct a "mop up" operation to rid Europe of the mrderous tyrants who helped start the war - the corroborators with Hitler who in 1939 invaded Poland. And, Patton would have succeeded. However, FDR had a love affair with "Uncle Joe" which blinded him from the reality of what communism is - the same love affair which even today infects the U.S. left. FDR sold out the freedom-loving peoples of central and eastern Europe to another holocaust surrounded by an Iron Curtain.

[Jim Noble]

Patton wanted to conduct a "mop up" operation to rid Europe of the mrderous tyrants who helped start the war - the corroborators with Hitler who in 1939 invaded Poland. And, Patton would have succeeded.

Do you have any conception of the combat power of the Red Army in May, 1945?