As I recall, he wanted to start a war between Russia and China, and make it look like each other’s fault . . .
Roughly 70% of the German army was in the east. The USSR beat them, and drove all the way to Berlin. Yes, American aid helped a lot. And yes, Hitler was incompetent. That helped too.
None of that should overshadow the fact that the Red Army of 1945 was a tough, experienced force that was very well led. Could we have beat them had we taken Patton’s advice? Probably, because of our air power. But it would have been a bloody mess. And folks at home would have been in rebellion. Your kid survives the war against the Nazis, only to die fighting a recent ally.
Bottom line: Patton was not just wrong here. He was dangerously wrong.
You could have chosen a better and more complete selection of quotes, and one that didn’t have a typing mistake in the first word.
If DJT were in uniform he would be Patton.
Patton spoke those words 78 years ago and not one word was in error. Patton was an outstanding general and understood war. Patton was an even better historian and understood the danger Russia presented to the world. We should have listened to him. When he spoke those words we had the atomic bomb, Russia did not. We would not have needed to fight them. We could have dictated the terms of their surrender. As mentioned above, we should have listened to Patton.
They played along, then realized the game was corrupt/controlled, then they were removed.
That was the Soviet Union. He would probably be appalled at America now.
"It's high time the Slavic race was in charge of Europe."
Putin is channeling Stalin, and desperately wants to succeed where Stalin failed
Absolutely true that modern-day Russian culture is largely derived from the Mongol hordes who over-ran the region in the 13th century. They never really left.
https://ricochet.com/1214468/finnish-intelligence-officer-explains-the-russian-mindset/
The Russian army was formidable only because we fed it. The book is "Feeding the Bear". Out of print now, and I curse the guy I lent my copy to. It never came back. Bottom line, if we had stopped our food shipments, the Red Army would have been starving in three months.
But Patton would never gotten traction with the FDR/Truman administration, because it was full of Stalinist fellow-travelers.
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Lol I’m on that thread somewhere.
Nobody beats the Russian winter.
A little l'audace can be a good thing but too much l'audace gets you shipped home in a body bag.
Russia has 13% flat tax rate, something free-market conservatives could only dream of in this country.
Putin has spent billions building churches and Russia has gone out of its way to protects its country from the LGBT agenda.
Soviet Union
Different animal
That's exactly why the Washington DC establishment at that time, shut him down.
Anyone who's read Patton's history knows he was a very well read student of military history, studied his enemies and allies well and knew full well what Communism was and still is today.
Different labels can get thrown at Communism to rebrand it as "more friendly & less deadly" and that still doesn't change the truth that Patton spoke about it.
THE SOVIETS UNION!!!