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In hindsight was it a mistake for the US to ally with the Soviet Union during WW2.
Posted on 2/25/23 at 1:59 pm
Posted on 2/25/23 at 1:59 pm
With the Cold War and iron curtain and even today the us and Russia relations are really bad. should the us have just let Germany and Soviets fight each other or was it just more important to defeat Germany as fast as possible?
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Posted on 2/25/23 at 2:00 pm to bdavids09
Yeah we should have just let the world end and not become a super power
Posted on 2/25/23 at 2:01 pm to bdavids09
Lol
Posted on 2/25/23 at 2:03 pm to bdavids09
We should totally have let Nazi Germany invade and occupy most of Europe. And exterminate even more people. Totes.
Posted on 2/25/23 at 2:04 pm to bdavids09
The mistake was not taking out Stalin after ww2
Posted on 2/25/23 at 2:16 pm to bdavids09
Should have let Patton take care of them in WW2.
Posted on 2/25/23 at 2:18 pm to bdavids09
We were fighting Hitler. Literally Hitler.
Posted on 2/25/23 at 2:21 pm to bdavids09
The OT is probably not the best place for a serious discussion of historical revisionism.
Posted on 2/25/23 at 2:36 pm to bdavids09
Germany controlled nearly all of Europe and had the USSR on the ropes. They were the bigger threat at the time. If Germany wins, we're locked into a cold war with a much more capable adversary. There's a good alternate history novel called Fatherland which explores this premise.
Posted on 2/25/23 at 2:39 pm to bdavids09
Patton said we need to keep going through Berlin to Moscow….
Posted on 2/25/23 at 2:56 pm to bdavids09
Hindsight is always 20/20.
While there were politicians who might have been half-serious when they expressed a desire to continue passed Berlin and on toward Moscow, there wasn't anyone within the Allied high command who ever entertained serious inclinations to do such a thing. By May 1945 the citizens of the United States and those of her allies were tired of war. There would have been no justifying to them an invasion of Soviet territory right after the surrender of Nazi Germany.
While there were politicians who might have been half-serious when they expressed a desire to continue passed Berlin and on toward Moscow, there wasn't anyone within the Allied high command who ever entertained serious inclinations to do such a thing. By May 1945 the citizens of the United States and those of her allies were tired of war. There would have been no justifying to them an invasion of Soviet territory right after the surrender of Nazi Germany.
Posted on 2/25/23 at 2:56 pm to bdavids09
The take: the world would be a better place with Nazi Germany as a global super power
Posted on 2/25/23 at 3:07 pm to bdavids09
That Russia/Ukraine thread is doing a real number on people’s brains around here. Guess who did most of the heavy lifting to defeat the Nazis?
“Thanks for your help. Now die.”
“Thanks for your help. Now die.”
Posted on 2/25/23 at 3:15 pm to bdavids09
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. should the us have just let Germany and Soviets fight each other
This is pretty much exactly how it played out. We provided goods and supplies but they had pretty much massacred each other to the max before we sent troops over in large numbers. Russia had already started pushing the Germans out as well.
So unless your take is that we should have allied with Germany then the result was going to eventually be the same.
This post was edited on 2/25/23 at 3:22 pm
Posted on 2/25/23 at 3:42 pm to bdavids09
We should’ve dropped the second A-bomb on Moscow
Posted on 2/25/23 at 3:44 pm to bdavids09
Not at all - the mistake was not rehabbing McCarthy and sending him back out to find the fricking commies.
Posted on 2/25/23 at 3:50 pm to bdavids09
No, the Allies had no intention of letting the war drag on. The death toll was already biblical. And I think some feared that the Germans were closing in on an atomic weapon. Had that actually come into fruition, that could have changed the war drastically.
Posted on 2/25/23 at 4:50 pm to bdavids09
We should’ve taken out the British in ww2
Posted on 2/25/23 at 5:11 pm to bdavids09
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In hindsight was it a mistake for the US to ally with the Soviet Union during WW2
Yes. We should have totally aligned ourselves with Japan and company on the heels of Pearl Harbor.
Posted on 2/25/23 at 5:50 pm to bdavids09
The US was attacked by the Japs, we declared war on Japan the next day. About a week later Germany declared war on the US.
We had no option. We declared war on both Japan and Germany after they declared war on us. Naturally we allied ourselves with Russia and the other allies.
We had no option. We declared war on both Japan and Germany after they declared war on us. Naturally we allied ourselves with Russia and the other allies.
This post was edited on 2/25/23 at 8:35 pm
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