| Attacking Russia would only accomplish one thing: Prevent the 50 year long cold war by replacing it with another decade of fighting. Who would have won? My blind patriotism forces me to say that Russia would have been defeated, obviously I could even cite specific reasons. The US and UK, IMO had a clear advantage on the seas and in the air. The only heavy bombers the USSR had were stolen from the US (B-29's, reverse engineered and renamed the..... TU-4?) and forgive me if I am wrong, but their mediium range bombers were also aquired from the US VIA Lend-Lease. The T-34 is the best tank in the world, at this time, and would have meant that the Russians in Europe would have the advantage, but the US and UK could have launched an attack at many locations while the Russians would have been forced to react, for example the US and UK could launch an assault through Finland (who would IMO be more than happy to help screw Russia) and cut off the Soviet Advance armies from their supplies, some might even run out of fuel before getting back to Russia to fight the American and British forces there.
All this is a mute point though, Patton did not get his wish, thankfully, we are all here today, in one form or another, so IMO it all worked out for the best.
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Please note that 98% of what I say is my opinion and/or my "version" of the facts. Most of what I say is rumor with little to no evidence to back it up, just something I picked up somewhere.
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