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Oops…sorry for the confusion…

the discussion about the “Patton Plan” was an offshoot of an Eichmann thread

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1644534/posts

in post # 3, Spanalot wrote “We should have let Patton take the last two nukes into Moscow and Stalingrad”

in post # 7, I asked for clarification

and was answered in # 10 by MeanWestTexan

"what was the Patton plan?"

To take the SS (largely intact and willing) and attack Russia.

A moral compromise I am happy we did not make, regardless of how foul Russia was. It would have bitten us somehow, somewhen.

And again, answered by Spanalot in # 18
Patton said (of the bomb) "give me two of them things and we'll take care of the communists now - because we'll only have to do it after they have these things too."

No wonder he was the most feared by the Nazis ( and commies).

Then, we get a discussion of the reasonableness of this plan in #29 by RedStateRocker
As long as one was SURE you wouldn't have to contend with nearly one hundred Russian divisions and those winters.
What makes anyone think the Russians wouldn't have done the same thing, trade space for time, let winter do the dirty work and strike once our lines of supply were hundreds of miles along. I mean I admire Patton as much as anyone on this board but I bet Ike knew a damn sight more than most of us and looking at the logistics said 'no'.
It would make an interesting scenario to game out; have to see if I still have Squad Leader around.

But there were a HELL of a lot of well armed, battle trained Red army and highly paranoid (with good reason having just lost 20 million or so to Germany) leadership, in the scale of things two 20 kiloton nukes might not have been as overwhelming as they were against tiny Japan.

And, answered in # 40 by MeanWestTexan
Nuke their cities and factories and don't advance forward against the russians --- use the winters against them.

Bomb the troops conventionally and use our superior air power to keep them from advancing further.

The russians divisions would have been fairly -- fairly --- easily prevented from forward motion, and eventually starved out as supplies stopped.
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