What part of we were bankrupt don’t you comprehend. The bucket was empty. There were no more resources. Hardly any more people.
You seem to think the US was full of flag waving patriots willing to do anything. While that might have been true in 1944, the letters I read from 1945 were anything but enthusiastic.
Starving out Japan would have taken years and millions of lives. It wasn’t necessary.
Starving out Russia would not have happened.
China would have ended up ruling the world.
You have a pessimistic view of the world, good guys always lose. I never said we should have purposefully gone to war with the Soviets, I said that we should have seized more territory in Eastern Europe in order to keep the communists from grabbing so much. I am arguing with good proof points that we had obvious military damages that would’ve kept the communists m from retaliating. America had a massive advantage in manufacturing, economic power, naval power, and we were at the time the only possessor of goddamned nuclear weapons.
Did you ever get to use your own lunch money to buy things to eat at school?