re: Worst Historical Disaster — Civil War or Second Great Awakening?

As soon as Hitler was finished we should have kept going and ended Stalin. We could have done it. We had nukes in late 1945 and could have smashed his massed tank armies .

Indeed, we should have listened to Patton and rolled all the way to Moscow. We could have ended the USSR while blockading Japan, starving them out with a naval blockade into 1946 or even 1947, there was no hurry.

Then we deal with Chairman Mao, strangling communism before it ever starts. No Korea. No Vietnam. No Cold War. No Yalta fricking up the Middle East (I hope).