let it be war!

Patton sits in his office devising a plan to invade the Soviets he believes we should strike know while we have full strength. What if the Soviet and the Americans when to war right after ww2 what affect would this have? Who would win? How would it start?
 
If WW3 begins immediately after WW2 Westerners would win. Soviets were pretty exhausted and Americans have nukes.
 

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The only way to do is to run away of Germany and throwing nuke and anthrax combo on Russia as well as Russian troops in Germany, such as bombing and nuking W and Baku.
Communists in Western Europe would rebel.
However, the nukes were not available yet at this time. Conventional war would be a nightmare for Allies. Well, at least the British army would be steamrolled. Soviet land forces by this time were superior in basicallu every aspect, and unlike Wallies, their aircrafts were designed for greater focus on battlefield destruction.
 
450px-Allied_army_positions_on_10_May_1945.png

The only way to do is to run away of Germany and throwing nuke and anthrax combo on Russia as well as Russian troops in Germany, such as bombing and nuking W and Baku.
Communists in Western Europe would rebel.
However, the nukes were not available yet at this time. Conventional war would be a nightmare for Allies. Well, at least the British army would be steamrolled. Soviet land forces by this time were superior in basicallu every aspect, and unlike Wallies, their aircrafts were designed for greater focus on battlefield destruction.
No true the west was more motorized then the Soviets
 
Were not the Western Allies stockpiling German weapons in case they would need to rearm the German armed forces to fight alongside them against the Soviets if the latter pushed things to a war?
 
Russian fighters were pretty short ranged so when they did meet the Russians would be outnumbered. Their logistics are going to get hit hard.No more America supplies either that means food and aviation gas.
 
The Western Allies have around 100 division-equivalents in Western Europe. The Soviets had just shy of 500 division-equivalents... although if we want to compute for the different strengths, the number is around ~250 Western division equivalents (the planners for Unthinkable came up with 264, which is roughly in the same ballpark). Regardless, the WAllies are outweighed in combat power on the order of approximately 2.5:1. The air war, at least in the short term, is a wash. Air power needs breathing space to affect the ground war, something that won't exist here.

Politically, the WAllies are shooting themselves in the foot. The Russians are still seen as the great friends who played a vital roll in bringing down those vicious Nazis. Up and attacking them will kick off an instant domestic political clusterfuck. We can expect Churchill and Truman to be thrown out of office on short order, to be replaced by men who will make peace. For the same reason, WAllied troop morale (whose reaction at the time to the idea of fighting the Soviets averaged out as "are you fucking insane?") will be in the pits.

There's a very basic reason as to why the British planners gave "Operation Unthinkable" it's name.
 
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Were not the Western Allies stockpiling German weapons in case they would need to rearm the German armed forces to fight alongside them against the Soviets if the latter pushed things to a war?
Great Idea. Arm Nazis and send them bach to Czechoslovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia. That would work.
 
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