Recent content by USViking

Stop spreading lies, asshole. JFK never said anything like this, and whover could believe he did say it is too stupid to chew gum and walk at the same time.

The same sort of thing happened with Colchicine, a medicine used to treat gout. The ancestor drug was discovered perhaps over 3000 years ago, and the modern form in 1820, long before there was an FDA. Usually prescribed in 0.6mg doses it is likely to have toxic if taken hourly, but...

Yes, I do believe evolution is true.

No- sorry, I should have said my original hometown. The answer is Bedford. Someone else post a question please.

Recall that the USSR bulldozed right through a seasoned Japanese army in Manchuria in 9/45. It could have had more to throw at us than we faced on D-Day, and with stockpiled supplies. Also, do you have any idea what the USSR Far East Maritime coast looks like? I do not, and I wonder if...

I am away from home, and cannot furnish a complete reply in one sitting. Our B-29s alone would have been inadequate for the mission. And distance is not only important as a range limiting factor. It increases the amount of time our aircraft would have been vulnerable to attack. I...

There was zero possibility of attacking the Crimea. Within days of the start of war with the West the USSR could have closed the Bosphorus and Dardanelles with ground forces stationed just over the Turkish border in the Balkans.

Bombing operations against such targets would have involved 2-3 times the distance that had to be covered in the pre D-Day air war against Germany, and by 1945 the USSR AF was stronger than Germany's had ever been. I do not understand why opening another front would benefit us more...

The T-34 was better than the Sherman and the IS was much better. Ridiculous: Tank to tank is what we would have been faced with in war with the USSR, and to begin with the USSR had immense superiority in both numbers and quality. Wrong. US tactical doctrine placed the Sherman in a...

Paragraph 4: Wrong. The population of the USSR was in 1945 more united with the government than it ever had been, or ever would be. In his book The Russians, which none other than William F. Buckley reviewed as "brilliant" New York Times reporter Hedrick Smith in the early...

Paragraph 3: Logistic capacity was about equal, even though the West would have had to rely on trans-Atlantic supply from North America. Bear in mind, though, that of the two sides it was the USSR which had the more favorable interior lines, and that interior lines had served the...

Here is Paragraph 2: 100 US divisions is about right if the Marines are included. The US fielded 81 Army Divisions and over 10 Marine divisions during the war. However, is there any doubt, really, that the 1945 Red Army was the largest of all time, and that it was veteran, and it that...

I will take it a paragraph at a time. Here is Paragraph 1: It is undeniable that the West could have outmanned and outgunned the USSR in an all-out war between the two blocs with no others involved. Bear in mind that such a war would have been unthinkable before Japan surrendered...

Patton, great fighting general though he was, was ignorant if he thought he could put a dent in the 1945 Red Army. And where did he say anything about taking Moscow? He and the rest of the Western armies were 500 miles from the Russian border, and Moscow was 1000 miles away! Anybody...

This situation actually occured to me once. It was at about 3-4am with zero traffic. After sitting for a few minutes I ran the light. I also once encountered a stuck red light in the middle of the day at an intersection with moderate traffic. Drivers proceeded as though there was a...