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There's a difference in what people are talking about.
If the war would have commenced there would have been one EASY way for America to win. To attack, then feign a retreat. While Russia amasses an enormous counterattack you get the B-29s up and you nuke their spearhead. After this the road would be cleared until the next counter-attack by the Russians, you forget that they were tactitians who believed in numbers not strategy.
Air Superiority could be won easily with bases in Germany (secured by the tactical nuclear attacks), and after this is ensured daylight and night time bombing of Moscow and Leningrad could commence.
We wouldnt make the mistake Germany made, Americans like to destroy infrastructure BEFORE invading, Germans did it the opposite. Russian tanks would whoop up on the Shermans, true, but a good General would never let this happen without massive Sherman numerical advantages.
Added to this we knew where EVERY Russian factory was, hell we gave them the equipment to build them. Just give these coordinates to the B-29s and whipe them out. The B-29s could fly higher than any Russian plane, even the Yaks.
And if they try to move it outside the range of bases in Germany we still have Japan and China (both our allies at the time). That leaves just a sliver of perma-frozen Siberia.... nothing much you can do there.
The war would have been horrendous on both sides, but America would have won.
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