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re: When was the United States at its peak - in relation to the world?
Posted on 10/7/16 at 8:54 pm to ChewyDante
Posted on 10/7/16 at 8:54 pm to ChewyDante
quote:just to defeat USSR
To take over the world? A fricking lot.
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Posted on 10/7/16 at 8:59 pm to OWLFAN86
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just to defeat USSR
Oh I believe we could have defeated the USSR without nuclear weapons. It sure as shite woulnd't have been easy though. By no means. And it would have required full participation from our French and British allies. Preferably the Germans too but that was a sticky political situation.
There is of course the possibility of Mao Tse Tung's Communists and the USSR joining forces.
The few nukes we had in 1945-1946 wouldn't have been enough to prevent that from being a full on, extremely bloody conventional war though.
The ideal scenario would have been to push them back to their pre-war borders east of Poland and settle. Other than that it would have been rather unpredictable and costly beyond comprehension. IMO.
Posted on 10/7/16 at 9:00 pm to OWLFAN86
We just slow-played the USSR economically. That is what defeated them eventually. WW2 ended and we were in far better shape than anyone. We had struck deals with the rest of world and had put missiles all around them...They were beaten then but just did not know it.
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