Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : To be a Liberal,you have to believe that..... -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Henry Volquardsen who wrote (4574)	10/26/1999 8:19:00 AM
From: Tsinogatna	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6418

You are forgeting our American allies in the West, China. With proper persuasion, they could have been brought to bear (;P) on the Soviets back, as well as providing ports and airbases for our war machine. Although technologically inferiour at the time, China had just as battle hardened of an infantry force as Russia. This is all hypothetical of course.

To: Henry Volquardsen who wrote (4574)	10/26/1999 9:39:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6418

It would have been particularly ugly for the US because the Americans wanted to go home. Any delay in US demobilization would IMO have caused widespread mutiny. A handful of people would have been willing to fight the USSR. With attitudes like this (which Roosevelt remembered very well from WWI where there were several AEF mutinies (successfully covered up) of troops ordered to Murmansk and US kept troops in Siberia for a year and half after the war. I don't believe any reasonable person contemplated playing tough with the Soviets. Churchill was a posturing gasbag, shortly to be rejected by the British who were already through with the war. Remember Stalin had eight years to live, was building an A-bomb, and maintained far more powerful forces than the West. He was ready to wait and only made his push in the late 1940's.