[razorbak]

Apparently you do not know the dispositions of forces in Europe at the end of WWII. There was no way we could have forced the Soviets back no competent military analyst would back up that wet dream. Patton would not have been up against any lightweight in Zukov either. Such speculation is beyond silly.

We had the A-bomb in 1945 -- they didn't for years -- case closed.

[justshutupandtakeit]

We had TWO bombs and used them against the nation still fighting us. There is no case much less a "closed" one.

Apparently you also have no idea as to how much destruction the Soviet Union suffered and STILL beat the Nazis. Other forces against Hitler were secondary in importance as any comppetent history of the War shows. It had two main theatres the US vs Japan and Germany vs the USSR.