The idea that the allies would have won operation unthinkable is fucking insane to me (hexbear.net)

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genuinely people who hold this opinion and wonder wistfully about it should be executed by firing squad. The 'Armchair historian' youtube channel just did a whole thing about it and genuinely i regard this man as worthy of being dumped in acid for this video alone.

the allies after going to war with the nazis, declaring war on the soviets, rebuilding the fascist army, would probably lose spectacularly.

Im not saying that that soviets would have rolled over them like paper, but the idea that the allies would gain any more than a Pyrrhic stalemate after losing in france and italy is so fucking dumb. the people who know the devastation after ww2 and are like 'i want another one just to destroy the soviets' are as anticommunist as the nazis and should be treated as such. they should also follow their fucking leader.

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[-] Justice@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 6 days ago

I kinda hate all the hypothetical history YouTubers. Even if it's interesting stuff that would have made things much better, well, it didn't happen. It's only worthwhile as far as analyzing mistakes to hopefully learn something and take the better option in the future, imo. And most of the YouTubers are reactionaries so whatever they want to happen is usually just very bad.

My question for this specific hypothetical is: Why the fuck should the Americans have even fought the Nazis in that case and not just come in, team up with Hitler, and blast the Soviets together? I would love for them to explain in detail why America even opposed the Nazis. Or, better, why he opposes Nazis. "Uh, well, because they were bad!" Yeah? At a time when America was horribly antisemitic itself and still was practicing American Apartheid in the form of Jim Crow laws, you think it was because the Nazis were racist that the Brits and Americans opposed them?

I don't even know this person, but just basing that off the majority of American's opinion. "Because we good guy and they bad guy!"