if we were REALLY scare of Russia, late 1940's

[prison/con.net]

then WHY didn't we nuke them in the 3 years that we had nukes and they did not, hmm? Wiping out Leningrad, Stalingrad and Moscow would have let us impose the Pax Americana for centuries. No Commie China, no Korea, no Nam, no Cuba, no Nicaruagura, no Panama, and no trouble in the Middle East, or with illegals, either. When you REALLY hold the trump card, and prove that you're willing and able to use it, the game is all yours.

 

[Alystyr]

That's an interesting question.
I'm sure there's many reasons why we didn't, and I'd imagine that most of them could possibly be grouped under "We're the Good Guys" in some fashion.
What would be interesting is to see what the decision would have been had they known what has transpired from their (in)action.
IIRC, Gen. Patton wanted to continue to roll on the Soviets right at the end of WWII, striking them while they were still recovering.

 

[toxicmedia]

then WHY didn't we nuke them in the 3 years that we had nukes and they did not, hmm? Wiping out Leningrad, Stalingrad and Moscow would have let us impose the Pax Americana for centuries. No Commie China, no Korea, no Nam, no Cuba, no Nicaruagura, no Panama, and no trouble in the Middle East, or with illegals, either. When you REALLY hold the trump card, and prove that you're willing and able to use it, the game is all yours.

The world was tired of war in 1946

 

[Porker]

then WHY didn't we nuke them in the 3 years that we had nukes and they did not, hmm? Wiping out Leningrad, Stalingrad and Moscow would have let us impose the Pax Americana for centuries. No Commie China, no Korea, no Nam, no Cuba, no Nicaruagura, no Panama, and no trouble in the Middle East, or with illegals, either. When you REALLY hold the trump card, and prove that you're willing and able to use it, the game is all yours.

Hindsight is always 20-20.

 

[Unkotare]

then WHY didn't we nuke them in the 3 years that we had nukes and they did not, hmm? Wiping out Leningrad, Stalingrad and Moscow would have let us impose the Pax Americana for centuries. No Commie China, no Korea, no Nam, no Cuba, no Nicaruagura, no Panama, and no trouble in the Middle East, or with illegals, either. When you REALLY hold the trump card, and prove that you're willing and able to use it, the game is all yours.

The world was tired of war in 1946

Really? Is that why the Korean War kicked into high gear four years later?

 

[toxicmedia]

then WHY didn't we nuke them in the 3 years that we had nukes and they did not, hmm? Wiping out Leningrad, Stalingrad and Moscow would have let us impose the Pax Americana for centuries. No Commie China, no Korea, no Nam, no Cuba, no Nicaruagura, no Panama, and no trouble in the Middle East, or with illegals, either. When you REALLY hold the trump card, and prove that you're willing and able to use it, the game is all yours.

The world was tired of war in 1946

Really? Is that why the Korean War kicked into high gear four years later?

Because the North Koreans invaded South Korea, and it wasn't sold to America, and the world, as a war.

They called it a "police action" because that's the only way a world exhausted from war could allow it to happen

 

[Unkotare]

then WHY didn't we nuke them in the 3 years that we had nukes and they did not, hmm? Wiping out Leningrad, Stalingrad and Moscow would have let us impose the Pax Americana for centuries. No Commie China, no Korea, no Nam, no Cuba, no Nicaruagura, no Panama, and no trouble in the Middle East, or with illegals, either. When you REALLY hold the trump card, and prove that you're willing and able to use it, the game is all yours.

The world was tired of war in 1946

Really? Is that why the Korean War kicked into high gear four years later?

Because the North Koreans invaded South Korea, and it wasn't sold to America, and the world, as a war.

They called it a "police action" because that's the only way a world exhausted from war could allow it to happen

You've seen too many episodes of M*A*S*H.

 

[toxicmedia]

then WHY didn't we nuke them in the 3 years that we had nukes and they did not, hmm? Wiping out Leningrad, Stalingrad and Moscow would have let us impose the Pax Americana for centuries. No Commie China, no Korea, no Nam, no Cuba, no Nicaruagura, no Panama, and no trouble in the Middle East, or with illegals, either. When you REALLY hold the trump card, and prove that you're willing and able to use it, the game is all yours.

The world was tired of war in 1946

Really? Is that why the Korean War kicked into high gear four years later?

Because the North Koreans invaded South Korea, and it wasn't sold to America, and the world, as a war.

They called it a "police action" because that's the only way a world exhausted from war could allow it to happen

You've seen too many episodes of M*A*S*H.

WWII had been fought for the enemy's destruction, and calling it a limited police action, by the UN, allowed Truman to alleviate opposition by Republicans.

The Republicans couldn't outright oppose the war, no more than Democrats could oppose the Iraq invasion in 2003. Both were tough sells to Americans because neither Korea nor Iraq ever attacked the US. But Republicans back then positioned themselves if it went wonky, to be able to say I told you so, and stated Korea is an unnecessary war … begun by President Truman without the slightest authority from Congress or the people. Sound familiar, just insert Libya for today's Republican ass covering move.

 

[whitehall]

Think about the intent and origin of posts that use awkward English. Most of the time the posts pretend to be domestic but are foreign and are intended to insult the greatest Country in the world.

 

[toxicmedia]

Think about the intent and origin of posts that use awkward English. Most of the time the posts pretend to be domestic but are foreign and are intended to insult the greatest Country in the world.

I wasn't sure if that sounded a little paranoid.

But! to humor you...I went back and read it a second time with my xenophobia engaged...and it conjured up some different imagery for me

 

[prison/con.net]

no, the REAL answer is evil to the CORE, the power mongers and military-industrialists were scared that we's slide back into the Depression, there could be a revolution, or at least, assasinations of their (worthless) selves. So they dare not put a REAL end to war. They felt that they HAD to have a boogie man, to justify imposing our HORRENDOUS levels of taxation and inflation. Stalin, Mao, and Castro did a GREAT job of providing that boogie man with a face and a name. after they passed, it was up to Khomeni, Saddam, and Osama to provide that boogie man. Now it's isis or whatever other bs name for some lil pissant group

 

[9thIDdoc]

then WHY didn't we nuke them in the 3 years that we had nukes and they did not, hmm? Wiping out Leningrad, Stalingrad and Moscow would have let us impose the Pax Americana for centuries. No Commie China, no Korea, no Nam, no Cuba, no Nicaruagura, no Panama, and no trouble in the Middle East, or with illegals, either. When you REALLY hold the trump card, and prove that you're willing and able to use it, the game is all yours.

You answered your own question. We weren't willing and able.

 

[Picaro]

We met our goals and pre-arranged agreements and stopped where we were supposed to, that's all. There was no benefit to starting off yet another war just to regain Poland and east Germany. The time to have taken out the Reds was in 1920-1921, when France proposed invading from the Black Sea region. Nobody else got on board, so it didn't happen. Water under the bridge.

 

[Picaro]

That's an interesting question.
I'm sure there's many reasons why we didn't, and I'd imagine that most of them could possibly be grouped under "We're the Good Guys" in some fashion.
What would be interesting is to see what the decision would have been had they known what has transpired from their (in)action.
IIRC, Gen. Patton wanted to continue to roll on the Soviets right at the end of WWII, striking them while they were still recovering.

Patton was a great tactical field commander, but a strategic moron, which is why Bradley was promoted over him. But hey, the press and a lot of drunks loved him.

 

[regent]

A democracy can be a little different fighting a war than a dictatorship. The American people wanted the war to end. The USSR had been difficult but they had suffered the most losses. There was a chance we might get along with the USSR, and for many that was enough. There was also a chance we might end up in a war with the USSR, and still another chance that if we waited long enough the Soviets would fold. The fear that the US would go communistic cost us many lives, and I wonder what the chances were of that happening?

 

[Picaro]

A democracy can be a little different fighting a war than a dictatorship. The American people wanted the war to end. The USSR had been difficult but they had suffered the most losses. There was a chance we might get along with the USSR, and for many that was enough. There was also a chance we might end up in a war with the USSR, and still another chance that if we waited long enough the Soviets would fold. The fear that the US would go communistic cost us many lives, and I wonder what the chances were of that happening?

Well, the Depression changed a lot of peoples minds, and I'm sure from some viewpoints it looked a lot closer to happening then than it does now or in hindsight. Of course the Soviet style 'communism' had already been discredited, by western communists themselves, by the end of the 1920's; most became populists and liberals, or socialists of one stripe or another. All of those things are lumped under 'communism' as far as the elite and rich are concerned, distinctions without a difference to them, and by extension their newspapers and politicians.

And, there was no point to suffering 2x more casualties just to 'rescue' half of a country we just defeated, nor any compelling reason to rescue Poland or any of the other Slavic states. Nothing to gain for the blood.

The Cold War was successful; some 20 years later and the Soviets were bankrupt by 1973, thanks to the Viet Nam police action, followed by the Arab defeats in the ME and the loss of 'cred' that created in both the ME but also Africa and South America as well. 20 years of low intensity proxy warfare is a much better deal than continuing the total war in Europe and killing another 5 to 10 million, just to appease some half-wit wingnuts 10-50 years in the future and their ridiculous opinions and spins.

 

[prison/con.net]

WHAT war, by WHOM? Once leningrad, moscow and Stalingrad were nuked, with plenty more nukes to keep the remainder of Russia out of Europe, there'd be nothinng left for russians to do but go back to growing wheat. You simply CANNOT sustain a war with no economic base and they would have had none once those 3 cities (and maybe some large army groups) were nuked They were completely ignorant about radiation, so the gamma rays would have continued to kill them for decades. Even dumbass CATTLE learn to avoid the club that decks them, instantly and every time.

 

[Picaro]

Yes. I totally forgot we had Superman, Captain America, Sgt. Rock, and a host of other super powered people on our side, and all that would have been just a piece of cake. Obviously there was a Big Giant Conspiracy at work here.

 

[IlarMeilyr]

Why didn't we unilaterally kill millions of people?

Is that REALLY the question?

I grant you, even the OP thread headline is evidence that prison boi is functionally illiterate.

But beyond that, what a fucking moronic idiotic sub-cretinous "question."

 

[prison/con.net]

why not END it? The Russians cost us TRILLIONS of $( by our not killing them and stopping Communism in its tracks. All you can do is call names, being unable to refute what I said. We just got THRU killing millions of Japanese/Germans, so why not a few million more Russians. It would have ben no loss to the world, certainly. WTF is the matter with you? There's no Sgt rock required, in order to drop some nukes on some cities, or on large military groups. No Captain America was needed to drop Nukes on Japan.

You dupes, pawns and co-conspirators just don't want to admit that I"m CORRECT, we SHOULD have nuked Russia and impose the Pax America and done away with the waste of $ that is the US miitary. Wannabe Hitlers that you are, you can't STAND the idea of the US not being able to bully the rest of the world