Oh, I know, but his plan included changing alliances and joining up with the (shattered) Wehrmacht and Waffen SS. It had to; the Red Army had a staggering level of men under arms and firepower at the close of the war, far more than the US and UK had, and they didn’t demobilize for real until the Warsaw Pact disintegrated in the 1980s (thank you and bless you, Poland!).
Politically Patton’s plan was unachievable, and probably wasn’t within military feasibility either (and I’m a big, huge fan of Patton and his abilities). After the nukes went off and Japan surrendered, Truman should have told Stalin to stfu, forget about anything in the Far East (because the USSR never fired a shot against Japan until Germany was ground into dust), and btw, get out of eastern Europe. It was a major failure not to use that advantage while we had it.
I agree with you ,now that we look back on history it is nice to think what could have been.
Patton was not a politician it probably added to his demise..
For one thing you probably would have had something resembling a mutiny among tens of thousands of GIs who were very tired of war by that time. The idea of initiating a major new war against our erstwhile Russian ‘ally’ on the heels of defeating Germany is a thought peculiar to Americans far removed those times. Patton was given to hyperbole and short of the Soviets invading the western sectors nothing was going to happen. The Soviets had a massive battle hardened army with internal lines of supply. It’s not hard to figure out how long and bloody that fight would have been.