American troops could have kept the Russians out of many areas that ended up behind the Iron Curtain without a war with the Sviet communists. we had an Air Force pound them to nothing and the atomic bomb. The main reason the Russians had a prayer of winning over Germany was that we destroyed the German industrial base, tied down millions of troops in the west, and took out the German air force. Stalin only advantage was just willingness to sacrifice millions of Russian soldiers.
Yeah, if we just pretend Japan wasn’t a thing, Europeans would love to keep dying, and that Americans at home would have gone along with this.
The whole question isnt just one of guns and bombs.
And that is if people back then were as dumb as the Germans were in 1941 when it came to thinking the Russians were just an easy pushover.
True. Germany was defeated in Russia with Allied logistics and Russian cannon fodder.
In August 1945 we had two bombs. And four months before we got more.
The country was bankrupt. We were drafting into the freakin Marines.
There is no way we could have fought a three front war against Japan , and Russia/China with the personnel and materiel we had.
Those suggesting Patton was correct do not think globally or logistically.
Where would we get the EXTRA million men in Europe?