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Originally Posted by Ustwo
This is one of those 'if only' moments.
There were American generals who thought the right thing to do after the fall of Germany was keep heading to Moscow.
It would have saved 10's of millions of lives in the long run which in retrospect would have been worth the cost. The chinese communists would have fallen as well had we done this.
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That's the same type of reasoning as: "if America had been less or more harsh in punishing Germany(the huge debt they had to pay), things would have been much better:
if they had been less harsh: Germany would have not been in the same kind of economical slump, the people would have been less desperate and would not have elected Hitler as chancellor in 1933
if they had been more harsh: there wouldn't have been the possibility of the creation of a regime because of the complete deprivation of resources and money."
I don't think you can make conclusions so easily... Maybe there would've been something even worse than the 3rd reich...and maybe if the course of history had been different, China would've been the equivalent of North Korea...who knows, really...