Originally Posted by
WB627
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.
I hope I’m not the only one who believes it would have been a bad idea to threaten the use of nuclear weapons after the end of WW2. I accept their potential use in retaliation of aggression against the US and its in accordance with signed treaties, for intended purpose of deterrence.