>>96299241the only reason we never went to war with the soviets and other communist allies is because of WW2.
after WW2 led to the atomic bomb, and after the soviets gained the atomic bomb, we couldnt go to war with them without it being a nuclear war. And we didn't want war with red china because we had just ended WW2.
if WW2 had ended in '41 or 42, the atomic bomb might not have been developed.
And without the prolonged conflict against Germany, we would not have been forced to ally with the soviets.
Which means we would have been able to fight against them freely. Same for china.
And the world would have been much better off today without the years of stalemate between US and communists due to the fear of nuclear war. (and indeed of long prolonged conflicts- without WW2 we might never have gone into Vietnam, because vietnam might never have gone red under china's influence.)
