"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.
Gotta give Patton credit for creativity.
"A moral compromise I am happy we did not make"
Moral Compromise?
What of the moral compromise as we stood by and did nothing to save 100 million from genocide.
What of the moral compromise that prevents us from bringing the first communist to justice for crimes against humanity.
""what was the Patton plan?" "
"To take the SS (largely intact and willing) and attack Russia. "
This was hardly necessary given that Stalin had to liquidate millions of his own soldiers who realized upon invading the west that the standard of living was far higher than what there brainwashed minds could conceive.
Add to this the millions of Ukrainians, Poles, Hungarians, Czechs, etc that faced enslavement and Stalin would not have had a chance.
Our fleet could have sailed into the Black Sea which was undefended and our airforce would have commanded the skies.