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holy SHIT!!!!!!!!!!.....it's like politics everywhere and today!! give and take ..scratch my back, I scratch yours1. Chic man or girl doesn't seem to want to respond--he-she is a coward in their own threadright off the bat your # 1 is bullshitmore IF s and IFs and IFs.......doesn't matter if he trusted him or not ......that's just another IF scenario--which can be countered by other IFsMORE fairytale/unrealistic thinking---The American public never would have tolerated the carnage involved in beating the Sovietsthe US was not going to beat Russia--not even closein the scale of wwii, a similar nuking of Germany would have been completely acceptable to any reasonable person.
and yes, that would be far preferable to eastern europe not living under communism for 45 years, not to mention avoiding the terrible cost of the Cold War.
I can’t believe what a callous killer you are. You would rather nuke millions of people rather than have them live under communism for 45 years.
Hirohito saw the devastation of the bomb and quickly agreed to surrender. What makes you think Hitler would do the same?
Hitler already made it clear he was willing to fight to the last man to save his Nazi regime. He allowed the Soviets and US to slaughter German citizens even though it was obvious he had lost the war.
What makes you think a nuclear attack would have changed his mind?
change his mind or vaporize it, either way, the war would have ended, and western europe and eastern europe would have been liberated, like you said could not happen without stalin.
so, you're wrong.
your whining about the deaths is stupid, as the death toll in stopping the nazis would be, quite likely less, in that scenario, and certainly not more.
General Patton knew what the Bolsheviks were, and voiced his opinion loudly......that's why Stalin's BFF, Roosevelt, had him benched.
Patton saw the inevitability of a conflict with the Russians.
"It is a conflict that Patton believes will be fought soon. The Russians are moving to forcibly spread communism throughout the world, and Patton knows it. "They are a scurvy race and simply savages," he writes of the Russians in his journal. "We could beat the hell out of them."
"Patton," By Martin Blumenson, Kevin M. Hymel, p. 84
Can you imagine the chagrin in the Soviet-occupied Roosevelt administration???
The Red Army is relentless in its quest to control as much of Europe as possible, with Stalin taking full advantage of Dwight Eisenhower's timidity.The Russians are seizing more land, and more people are coming under their occupation.
Patton is incensed. "You cannot lay down with a diseased jackal," he recently insisted to a group of journalists."Neither can we ever do business with the Russians."
When Undersecretary of War Robert Patterson visited the Third Army, Patton openly lobbied for at least 30 percent of all American troops to remain in Europe, "Keeping our forces intact. Let's keep our boots polished, bayonets sharpened, and present a picture of force and strength to these people.
This is the only language they understand and respect. If you fail to do this, then I would like to say to you that we have had a victory over the Germans but have lost the war."
Even Patton's nemesis, British field marshal Montgomery, agrees: when accepting the surrender of German soldiers, he ordered his troops to stack the Wehrmacht rifles in such a way that they could easily be redistributed should the Germans and British need to defend themselves against a Russian advance."
Yet the Harvard-educated undersecretary Patterson thinks Patton is delusional. He advises Eisenhower, army chief of staff Gen. George C. Marshall, and President Harry Truman continue to view the Russians benevolently.
In time, of course, Patton's predictions will come true, and the world will have to live with the consequences of American gullibility
"Killing Patton," O'Reilly and Dugard, p. 259-260
Of course, Marshall, Hopkins, et al openly wanted the Soviets to control Europe....and said so.
We could have done it, but it never would have been worth it
if the public had not been lied to about what the soviets were or who stalin was, they could have been prepared for the possibility of it.
and with that leverage, stalin could have been pushed back into his own pre-war borders.
THAT would have been an accomplishment by fdr, worthy of the praise you heap on him.
The public understood what dead soldiers were and that this was not a war on our own territory or a war for our survival.
After 400,000 deaths, they would not have tolerated a million deaths in an ideological fight against communism.
You were not going to push the Soviets back from territory they lost 20 million people for without a savage fight.
The US public would not have stood for it.
if fdr was the leader that you claim he was, there would not have been 400k american deaths and the public would have been prepared for the possibility that defeating nazi german and japan was not the end, not with stalinist russia still in field.
prepare for MORE war??? with our ALLY!!!!!?????!!!!!!
MORE wasted US deaths???????!!!!!!?= idiocy
Alliances end, and former allies can become enemies. Indeed, that is exactly what happened.
Hell, if Stalin had been less trusting of Hitler, millions of russian lives could have been saved.
if we let the marxists like rw write history, they will be teaching the kids that Stalin and FDR deserve the credit for stopping Hitler and we can learn from them.
That is what rightwinger and tommy taint want to do.
pointing out that their heroes did not do nearly as well as they pretend, is a valid exercise.
if you don't want to participate, then don't.
But, IF you are going to discuss FDR accomplishments, then you have to consider them, against what he alternatives were.
"... IF you are going to discuss FDR accomplishments, ...."
And along those lines....
1. Roosevelt offered up the lives of everyone in Eastern Europe to his lord and master, Joseph 'Koba' Stalin
2. He made certain that Stalin's plans continued after his death: the creation of the United Nations
3. He extended the Depression by years.
4. He disposed of the Constitution
5. He imposed Mussolini's Fascist policies and called it 'the New Deal
6. He turned over command of our military actions in WWII to Stalin, and cost multiple thousands of US soldiers' deaths.
7. He made certain that communism survived the war, and thrived afterwards.
8. Without his efforts, there would be no Red China, no Korean War, and no Vietnamese War
9. ...and he is the proximate explanation for the cultural Marxism prevalent in society today.
10. He was a racist and a bigot how wanted only those ‘with the right sort of blood.’ Sounds like a Nazis, huh?
and # 8 is bullshit----FDR is not stopping the Chinese civil war--or any other civil war....you don't know your history
NO ONE is going to stop those civil wars
i have heard/read that we encouraged a ceasefire between the nationalists and the communists so they could focus on fighting the japanese.
good for the war effort.
bad for the post war world.
short term thinking vs long term thinking.
2. FDR did NOT offer up the lives of everyone in East Europe--that's just plain bullshit
3. you are not thinking realistically -doesn't matter what we encouraged --they are going to do what they want!!
4. MOST of your posts and Chics/etc sound like we should have been concentrating on POST war --and not THE war!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????????????????????????????????????????
WTF??
..so enact policies and tactics/strategy NOT to defeat the Axis, but to help us out post war!! this IS what you are saying
=which we didn't have any idea what was going to really happen post war
If we want to discuss the people and the polices of the time, looking at the results of the polices, but short term and longer term is fair and reasonable.
yes, getting the commies and the nationalists to not fight each other and to fight the japanes, I'm sure helped.
but it greatly benefited the commies relative to the nationalists.
THat led to the Korean War, or at least to it being a lot worse than it could have been.
PLUS FDR had advisors/Congress/Military/politicians/etc to listen to and fight with = it's called reality !!!!!!!
And he did the obvious and politically acceptable.
but that is not the "Great Leader" that people like rw want to paint him as.
a GREAT LEADER, could have walked and chewed gum at the same time, ie fought the war with an eye to the post war situations.
....do you have any idea how IMMENSELY complicated that was????!!!
you had the Allies--France with de Gaullle --and then much complicated politics and military within just France!! --such as Admiral Darlan/the Free French vs Vichy/etc
--same with Yugoslavia ..same with Italy
....all over
AND you have much discord/arguing among his OWN generals!!! Mac vs Halsey .... and then among the Allied generals--Monty/Patton/etc
....VERY COMPLICATED to say the least -military strategy and politics --WORLD wide---not just in the US....
etc etc
...hahahhahahahahahahahahah
wooooohoooooooooo
Correl and Chic are GODS!!!! like never before!!!!!
FDR could've done it better!!!!! woooohooooooo
a WORLD wide war and politics ---he could've done it better!!!!!!!!!!
LOl yes, the FDR bashing is just bizarre; we took less casualties than Britain while fighting at one point of three fronts, kept all our allies in the field and the war ended roughly three years after we entered it, but 'FDR screwed it up n stuff'. lol what a hoot.
Hating Democrats is fine, but going nutjob and joining the conspiratorial clown cars isn't going to get any more votes for the GOP just because the WW II generations are mostly dead now and think they can make up whatever crazy shit you want about it.

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World War Two was the deadliest war in human history. Between 70 to 85 million people died, either as a direct result of the conflict or due to war-related factors.

Outside of Wilkie and a few others, the Republicans would have left the entire European sub-continent to Stalin, and all of Asia to Mao and Stalin while they hid under their beds and cried. Isolationists are rather dumb. Their policies would have left the entire world Red in 20 years.