- 13 Dec 2008 20:02
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Patton had held the view that after the Second World War the greatest threat came from the East in Soviet Russia. He argued that the German troops should be re-armed and sent East to Moscow.
I would like to argue he was probably right. It was acheivable. With the atomic bomb which Russia would not produce for another 5 years, being on a war footing with a war economy and enough man power it would have been a short though probably very messy atomic war.
So what would it acheive? Well the end of Communism for a start, the occupation of Russia would put us on the door-step of China with the possibility of preventing that revolution. Without Russian and Chinese support Korea and Vietnam would have been sorted alot easier as would Cuba if ever happening at all. The various revolutions in Africa would similarly not have happened.
On a bigger note what of the proxy wars? No Soviet backing for Middle Eastern forces, no war in Afghanistan, no Bin Laden, no Al Qaeda.
Of course it would essentially put America as the conquerer of the world but for what it would have prevented would it be so awful?
Discuss.
I would like to argue he was probably right. It was acheivable. With the atomic bomb which Russia would not produce for another 5 years, being on a war footing with a war economy and enough man power it would have been a short though probably very messy atomic war.
So what would it acheive? Well the end of Communism for a start, the occupation of Russia would put us on the door-step of China with the possibility of preventing that revolution. Without Russian and Chinese support Korea and Vietnam would have been sorted alot easier as would Cuba if ever happening at all. The various revolutions in Africa would similarly not have happened.
On a bigger note what of the proxy wars? No Soviet backing for Middle Eastern forces, no war in Afghanistan, no Bin Laden, no Al Qaeda.
Of course it would essentially put America as the conquerer of the world but for what it would have prevented would it be so awful?
Discuss.