Never stated to be favor of patton's idea of attacking the russians. But I do think he called the situation right. The country had enough of war and still needed to finish the job in the pacific. But you have to admit that the russians went far beyond their sphere of influence. I would call that turning on your allies. We went in there to free europe from hitler and ideally speaking, all of the eu contries should have been free after his defeat. They all didn't get that.
And the Russians were a great help in the pacific. (SARC)After we finished the japanese off. And they still are holding on to some of Japanes territory.
A little review of European history would show that Russia had extensive involvement in Eastern Europe for hundreds of years before Stalin. It was because of Russian involvement in Serbia that WWI started. Poland was wiped off the map by it. Almost every Balkan state was under the control of the Russians. In earlier days the ideology driving this involvement was Pan-Slavism not Communism but it had the same intent.
Stalin was a murderous pig but there was nothing unusual from a geopolitical point of view which would have indicated he (or any other leader) would have pulled back his forces and allow anything but puppet regimes be installed in the countries the Red Army occupied. Not after the enormous sacrifices the USSR had made in defeating Hitler. Ours paled in comparison.
When they finally intervened against Japan the Korean penisular was divided and we know how that resulted.