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Post by Marcus Starkiller on Apr 22, 2006 21:17:13 GMT -5
I wish that General Patton's plan of arming the Germans after WW2 and declaring war on Russian had gone through. There wouldn't have been a Cold War at all, and we would have had the other allies backing us up seeing as how the Soviets didn't trust any of us then. Am I the only one with this opinion?
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Post by cyberpaladin85 on Apr 22, 2006 21:29:47 GMT -5
That all depends on the aftermath. Would a defeated USSR mean that the USA would not have a need for a big freaking bloated defense budget afterwards? Would it mean the the CIA would not form, preventing the installation of dictators like Pinochet is South America? Would it mean that their would not be enough nuclear weapons in the world that if they were converted into TNT we would be ankle deep in it? If these three things had their answers favor the path of peace, then I really must say GET AT 'EM, PATTON!
Curse you Eisenhower, for not listening to Churchill. Now we have to live in this world where the USA is the new imperial power.
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Post by Marcus Starkiller on Apr 22, 2006 21:33:59 GMT -5
I am glad to see that there are others with the same beliefs as me.
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Post by cyberpaladin85 on Apr 22, 2006 21:45:47 GMT -5
As am I.
Though I am much more left then right in politics, I can clearly see that the fundamental ideals of Stalin's USSR were, are still, and probably forever will be unachievable. To borrow a saying from Transhuman Space: "Communism failed because it was 200+ years ahead of it's time."
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Post by Marcus Starkiller on Apr 22, 2006 21:49:31 GMT -5
Neat saying.
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Post by Binary the Great on Apr 23, 2006 3:03:24 GMT -5
Perhaps the Germans would have just turned on us and kept fighting for many years, leaving Central Europe no better than some portions of a Africa and South America...
Who's to know how it could have happened? All we can hope is that the leaders of the time did what they thought was best for all of those involved.
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Post by Steedo on Apr 30, 2006 22:07:00 GMT -5
I really don't think that Germany was in much of a shape to do any more fighting. Their economy, production facilities, and leadership were all destroyed. Their only military assets were a few thousand surviving veterans, supplemented with children in their teens and younger. If germany had sustained more casualities in the prime soldier age, it would have exacerbated the countries already seriously depleted young male population and only serve to further destablize Germany, potentially to the point that they would be open to communist revolution, which would have put is in an even weaker position in the Cold War.
Basically, we'd be putting the resources that would have been rebuilding Germany into a reasonably peaceful society into destroying what was left of their young generation. I don't really think that would have been even remotely responsible, practical or politically defensible.
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