Selling it, no problem!
Are you kidding? The Soviet's have already handed them the perfect sales plan just by attacking:
"We Fed them. We Sent them Arms. We* Defeated their enemies. And they repay us by stabbing us in the back!"
You can get a year out of the anger from that alone - by which time there will be several big craters in Eastern Europe, glowing in the dark...
BTW, quite apart from the atomic bombing which starts in late summer, how long can the Soviet war machine function without lend-lease?
* It'll be "we defeated" because Soviet attacks against Germany will immediately get downplayed, especially since it now seems it was only "so they could take it over instead..."
Edit: This was based on the assumption that the Soviets attacked first, of course. Toss it all in the bin if the West does it.
I think part of the problem is this: how does the US and UK sell a new war -against wartime allies - to the voters at home?
Are you kidding? The Soviet's have already handed them the perfect sales plan just by attacking:
"We Fed them. We Sent them Arms. We* Defeated their enemies. And they repay us by stabbing us in the back!"
You can get a year out of the anger from that alone - by which time there will be several big craters in Eastern Europe, glowing in the dark...
BTW, quite apart from the atomic bombing which starts in late summer, how long can the Soviet war machine function without lend-lease?
* It'll be "we defeated" because Soviet attacks against Germany will immediately get downplayed, especially since it now seems it was only "so they could take it over instead..."
Edit: This was based on the assumption that the Soviets attacked first, of course. Toss it all in the bin if the West does it.
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