In that respect, it was the Cold War that didn’t work. Of course, the Cold War was just a continuation of WWII essentially.
Don’t know how true it is, but the movie “Patton” had the titular general mentally preparing to go to war with the USSR, and even saying that it would have to be the next war that the USA would have to fight after Germany and Japan was beaten.
You can’t say the state of affairs set up by how we chose to fight and conclude WWII is the Cold War’s fault. There can’t be a Cold War without the conditions which set off the Cold War. The Cold War cannot be blamed for its own existence. That was determined by the ling string of stupidities leading up to it.
Some say Patton was killed deliberately because he was going to report to Congress the atrocities of the Russians whom he claimed were more brutal than the Nazis. (He understood the evil Marxist ideology and knew that most of the Germans had a Christian upbringing and weren’t like the homosexual Brownshirts/Hitler.)
He was outraged by the deals that Washington made with the Russians-—virtually leading to the killing and enslaving of millions which he knew would happen. He was very vocal in his letters that he was going directly to Congress to let the American people know the truth that Washington DC was hiding from them.
We need men like Patton today......but they are being eliminated with the promotion of every type of vice in the military today. Patton would not have stood for the promotion of sodomy in the military or women in combat. All Marxism to the core to destroy the Virtue—needed for great militaries (Machiavelli, Washington).