“So why didn’t the allied leadership allow Patton to have his way?”
Because they weren’t idiots.
People that actually think this was possible is one of the fastest ways of identifying a moron.
No. They were tired of war. With millions dead in Europe, WWIII was unthinkable.
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.
Well put. Given the size of the Red Army at the time, the only way to take them on would have been to switch sides at precisely the time the fighting was still going on, because the Germans would have been needed. Politically, it would have shattered the alliance. And in order to shift US resources to the Pacific War, there had to be V-E day, and we had to wait until we had The Bomb to bring about V-J day.
After we had The Bomb, however, and for the few more years the USSR didn't...