Patton was a brilliant commander.
And he was dead on about Russia as history shows us.
Patton correctly saw Stalin as worse even than Hitler, and correctly predicted that they would dominate the entire theatre with great human suffering.
At the same time however, what we would have done with Russia if we would have conquered them is a whole other story.
The Russians had just finished killing 4 million Germans.
How many Americans would we have been willing to sacrifice?
The Russian Army at the end of the European war was just about completely evaporated.
They couldn't have defeated an Ivory Coast invasion at that point.
I think you've been very misinformed about Soviet troop strength and its industrial capacity by 1945, too.
I'm not prepared to dig out my books on this subject, but at the end of the war the Soviet military machine was enormous and very able, too.
As a clarification, I am not saying I agree with Patton...as I said above, if we would have invaded/conquered Russia - what the hell would we have done with them?
Not a chance in hell (unless we used the bomb...and we only had the nuclear material for two bombs) could we have defeated the Soviets in Europe and invaded Russia.
I think youre letting your US patriotism get the better of you.