[colorado tanker]

I do think FDR had or should have had the intelligence capability, foreseeability, and determination to deal effectively with Stalin.

Maybe he could have developed that if his administration hadn't been so thoroughly penetrated by Soviet spies!

I do think Ike was determined to stay out of the political side and take decisions strictly from a military point of view. And I think a lot of Americans came home from the war alive because he did that.

[PapaNew]

Well, again, Ike was probably just following orders. This to me was an FDR deal. The intelligence problem within and without in the FDR administration shows IMO that FDR was asleep at the wheel when it came to the Soviet threat.

I think the contemplation at Yalta was that of political advantage more than the risk of more or less lives being lost. IMO, the argument for what should have been the reasonably foreseeable balance of misery, suffering, and death was an argument for the Allies to take Berlin.