Well what you stated is all well and good; however, kicking the Russkies out of Germany and Eastern Europe wouldn’t be the same as fighting them on their own soil. After all, they had no business hauling off everything that wasn’t nailed down in Germany.
People forget that Russians joined the invading Germans mistakenly thinking that they were going to save them from Stalin’s communism.
American lives would have been saved in the ensuing wars against communism had we faced up to the real enemy at the time.
I’m not one of those Americans unfamiliar with how chummy Stalin was with Hitler. In the Non-Aggression Pact of 1939 Stalin gained control of the Baltic States, which, despite their portraying themselves as victims of Stalin’s terror, were quite the enthusiastic participants in the Holocaust. I’ve silenced many a Russian in Internet discussions when they start with that ‘’20 million dead because of the Hitlerite Fascists’’ bs until I point out to them how content Old Joe was to stroll down the garden path with Old Adolph. I have known quite a number of Poles to whom Sept. 1st. is their September 11th. and they are always impressed and grateful to find an American who understands this history, and more so when I mention the word ‘’ Katyn’’ You know I’m sure what that is. Poles hate Russians. But as to turning on the Soviet Union in 1945, no my friend, that would have been suicide. You haven’t seemed to consider what I said in the impending invasion of Japan, as necessary as that appeared at the time, the predicted causalities would have been enormous. And how would you have explained to the American people , after having been told the Russians were our friends and having fought along side Russia as an ally , they are now suddenly an enemy? The Russians were not a beaten army in 1945, not at all. Slavic peoples, as I have seen over the years love you like a brother when you’re on their side. Betray them, and you will have an enemy like no other. It will be a hatred that will last for generations. besides, even if America had over whelmed the Russians, we would be occupying them to this day and the bloodshed will have never ended. Americans wanted an end to the war in 1945, not a continuation of it.