genuinely people who hold this opinion and wonder wistfully about it should be executed by firing squad. The ‘Armchair historian’ youtube channel just did a whole thing about it and genuinely i regard this man as worthy of being dumped in acid for this video alone.
the allies after going to war with the nazis, declaring war on the soviets, rebuilding the fascist army, would probably lose spectacularly.
Im not saying that that soviets would have rolled over them like paper, but the idea that the allies would gain any more than a Pyrrhic stalemate after losing in france and italy is so fucking dumb. the people who know the devastation after ww2 and are like ‘i want another one just to destroy the soviets’ are as anticommunist as the nazis and should be treated as such. they should also follow their fucking leader.
I’m sure anyone who’s even halfway familiar with this scenario has seen this map before, but I’m including it anyway because it hammers home how absurd the notion is that the rest of the Allies stood a chance against the Soviets. Even without taking the actual combat readiness of these units into account, the numerical disparity is simply obscene, as is the disparity of experience (recall that 8 of every 10 German casualties in this war were inflicted by Soviet troops; the scope and intensity of fighting on the Eastern Front is simply beyond the experience of the American and British armies, at that or at any point.) My off the cuff assertion is that this would’ve ended with mass American casualties and a rapid loss of political will, rendering superior American manufacturing capacity moot.