“While, if we took a break, then defeated communism, the entire world would have been free from there on out, with representative governments in all the major powers; there would have been no “rogue” oligarchies bent on being able to defeat the U.S. “
1. Where would the political support for such a misadverture have been? Outside of your imagination it wouldn’t have existed.
2. Would you really want American soldiers to follow in the footsteps of Napoleon and Hitler’s Wehrmacht; marching to their doom in the snows of Russia?
3. The USSR post-war was an existentially more powerful opponent then Nazi Germany was (and we were able to beat Germany in the West BECAUSE MOST OF THE WEHRMACHT WAS TIED DOWN IN THE EAST!!).
4. I don’t know why I’m even bothering to counter this screed. I feel like I’m pouring wine into stagnant water. It’s Father’s Day and I’ve got better things to do.
1. True, it would have to be manufactured as with most wars.
2. They both had terrible planning (summer uniforms ?) and were under the leadership of someone with delusions of grandeur and NPD (now there’s a scary thought). Given the enormous size of the USSR it’s my opinion that those two can’t even be considered credible attacks if one looks at the big picture.
3. We were able to beat Nazi Germany because they had no viable ability to invade U.S. soil, which solidified our population and manufacturing capacity advantage, so the outcome of the war was inevitable.
4. My apologies if my rant was troubling, the last thing I want to do in this day and age is trouble people any more than they already are. Don’t waste that wine... reminds me of the interesting anecdote about the restaurant in France that hid the cellar from the Nazis by building the door into a wall, actually worked.