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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
....The rest of the world would have declared war on the US if they had done it....There is a lot of anti American feeling these days....
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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
....As for the OP, the UK suggested fighting the Soviets several times. Churchill is on record as having discussed it personally with Roosevelt. The French might or might not have gone along, but there was no one else in the world to declare war on the US if they'd gone to war against the Soviets. The Spanish were still recovering from their civil war (and wouldn't have been a big factor regardless), the Italians were out, the Turks had no interest, the Chinese were busy throwing the Japanese out and fighting amongst themselves, the Indians were part of the UK, and the South American countries couldn't have fielded a fighting force, let alone a navy to get them there. So who, exactly, was left to declare war against the US?
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Pretty much what I was going to say. In 1945 there was neither the external hostility nor the internal self-loathing of the USA that is prevalent today.
The USA was the fair haired boy/God's gift to the world that had saved it from Hitler. In 1945 the US had its shit together better than any time before or since, and was at the height of its strength militarily, economically and spiritually. The USSR had a very strong army, good tactical air arm, but no strategic air force, no navy to speak of, and was a disaster economically.
The USA had the atomic bomb, which at that time was considered just another weapon with a bigger bang. No one can know if the USA
would have won, but if Truman had the moral will to prosecute the war with the Soviets vigorously, the USA certainly
could have won it.
Lindy
And again I ask:
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Originally Posted by Lindy
Why is this thread in Tilted Knowledge and How-To???
Or, maybe this is the right place for Alt History conjectures. I don't know. It just doesn't seem to fit in very well with snooze buttons, installing mirrors, and leaking water heaters.
Lindy
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