Had Patton prevailed upon Eisenhower, Marshal, and Churchill to see Stalin’s Soviet Union as a dire threat to Western Society, what would have been the ramifications of such a war? Who would have prevailed? And why do you think so?


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My opinion is that while it would have been anything but an easy win, had the British Commonwealth and the United States, along with other Allied nations with a vested interest, pursued that course they could eventually have prevailed.

While the Soviet empire possessed vast recourses it lacked in infrastructure. The Allied nations possessed strategic advantage in Naval Forces, Air Forces, & Logistics. The Soviets held a technical edge in armor but one which was dwindling.

At the close of WWII the American invasion of Japan was scheduled to commence on 1 Nov. 1945
The invasion force was the largest ever assembled and all tolled was made up of 39 US Divisions. It does not take a huge leap of faith to see that these could have been used to invade the Soviet mainland in the Far East.

The Chinese Civil War was on hold during WWII, to a large extent due to the lack of supplies coming from the Soviet Union. China had had the resistance on the run before the war and had a vested interest in seeing the Soviets weakened or destroyed.

By the Autumn of 1945 it should have been painfully obvious that relations with the Soviet were never going to be what was envisioned by FDR in the mid war years, and that the Western Democracies were going to have to resist in some fashion. Had they had the stomach for a longer war, I believe they would have prevailed.