Originally Posted by
dead_pan
If we'd have had nukes and could have insisted that was it, then probably yes.
Don't forget we gave up half of Europe at the end of the war.
IIRC that was pretty much the half we didn't have at the start and why we entered the war. At the end* all we had achieved was swopping one murderous dictator for another. We utterly betrayed those in Europe that we had sought to free in the first place.
At the end * of the war, the west did have nukes, but the Americans did not want to threaten our former ally with them, to free Eastern Europe and the Baltic states, as we should have done.
end * You cant have an end to something that isn't finished yet.