In World War II, the Soviet Union was one of the countries with huge losses, with a population loss of more than 20 million, and most of the country was reduced to rubble. The United States, on the contrary, did not suffer the slightest blow on its own territory, and in the early stages of the war, both sides ate everything, and made a lot of money by selling resources and weapons.
It was only after the elite German troops had fought almost all that the United States began to intervene and gain the greatest reputation at the least cost. After the end of the European battlefield, the United States and the Soviet Union joined hands against the enemy Japan, and soon won the final victory in World War II.
Although the United States and the Soviet Union maintained a period of alliance after the end of the war, they both knew that the ideologies of the two sides were opposed, and this contradiction could not be reconciled, so they were secretly on guard.
Since the United States knows that it will be hostile to the Soviet Union in the future, why not take advantage of its strong army and nuclear weapons to launch a joint attack on the Soviet Union with western countries?
As early as April 23, 1945, before the end of the war, Truman, who had just become president of the United States, publicly stated that he would end his unilateral concession policy to the Soviet Union and would take a tough stance thereafter. It can be seen that the Americans have no good feelings for the Soviet Union.
At the end of World War II, the United States had more than 10,000 bombers, the Army had more than 8.3 million troops, and the Navy had more than a hundred aircraft carriers, so the huge military strength Truman finally did not press the war button, not that he did not want to, but he could not.
The first is that opposition to the continuation of the war in the United States is the mainstream, and neither soldiers nor civilians are willing to continue fighting.
Especially the soldiers on the front line, they face life and death all day, they can survive is a fluke, they participated in the war because the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, so there is a passion for defending the country, now the Axis powers have been defeated, naturally it is impossible to fight for a few politicians. If there is a real fight, it will certainly not be uncommon for the front line to slack off and the rear to slack off.
And if the United States wants to start a war, the president alone has to say it, but also has to be approved by Congress. President Roosevelt wanted to join World War II earlier, but was not allowed until after Pearl Harbor, when the mood of the American people was mobilized, and Congress agreed to declare war on fascism.
Sometimes the public opinion at home is also very important, such as the later Vietnam War, and the United States also withdrew early because the domestic opposition was too loud.
The United States also suffered millions of casualties for World War II, and peace was ushered in. American politicians cannot use a few words such as "The Soviet Union is the enemy of the United States, and the United States should now go to destroy him is the best time" to make his country unanimously agree to go to war.
As soon as the war ended, the United States carried out a major disarmament, which is actually the will of the people who want peace.
In addition, although the Soviet Union experienced heavy losses, its strength at the end of the war should not be underestimated.
The Soviet army that experienced the baptism of war is far from being comparable to the rabble-rousers in 1941, and the Soviet Union has emerged a number of excellent commanders and fighters from the war, and the overall strength of the troops has been significantly improved. To put it bluntly, if the Soviet Union had wanted to invade Western Europe in 1945, the rate of occupation would not have been slower than that of Nazi Germany.
After the war, the Soviet Union had nearly 12 million troops, more than 20,000 tanks, and more than 20,000 combat aircraft, which was already terrifying enough on paper. The quantity was not weak, but the quality was also improved, such as the Soviet Parade after the capture of Berlin, when the new JS-3 tank appeared to shock the Western generals.
In conventional combat alone, the Western world really did not necessarily win the Soviet Union. At that time, the United States actually did not have many atomic bombs, and it should be known that it only had 25 in 1947, and the equivalent of the atomic bomb was completely insufficient to eliminate all the Soviet troops, so naturally it did not dare to fight.
In the end, the United States is more willing to harvest Britain and then sit firmly on the world's first throne.
World War II reshuffled the world, the United Kingdom, which has dominated the world for hundreds of years, suffered huge losses, and the United States, which did not want to follow, only wanted to stab in the back to harvest Britain's political heritage, so as to achieve its own purpose of reaching the top.
Britain itself is actually not big, but it has many colonies, and it is these colonies that are constantly transfusing blood to its homeland, which maintains the status of The British superpower.
When the United States rose, the world was basically divided, and if you want to get it, you must go through war. At that time, the United States did not dare to fight with Britain, after all, the fire that burned the White House was still faintly painful. So even though the United States surpassed Britain economically in 1894, it never dared to challenge Britain.
But at the end of World War II, Britain was crushed, and this was an opportunity for the United States.
If Britain is given a certain amount of time, relying on hundreds of years of accumulation, it will soon be replenished in the colonies, and then the United States can only be a little brother, so the United States is reluctant to give Britain this opportunity.
The United States began to encourage national independence in the name of "freedom", telling the colonies that they could live as well as the British, and secretly supporting these independent forces. Where does Britain, which has long been severely depleted by the war, still have the strength to 'counterinsurgency' around the world?
In this way, the United States directly cut off the blood transfusion line of Britain, and since then britain has only been an ordinary power, and the United States has become the world's forefront superpower in one fell swoop. The point is that the United States did not send a single soldier and gained a good reputation in the world, which is not greater than the benefits of going to war with the Soviet Union?
But the Western country that really wanted to go to war with the Soviet Union was Britain, and Churchill once formulated two sets of operational plans against the Soviet Union, one was active attack and the other was passive defense.
The British had wanted to get German prisoners of war to take up arms again and rush to the front line around July 1945, and then britain and the United States would invest all their forces to seriously damage the main Soviet forces on the north road, so as to attack Piwa and Bydgoszcz, and eliminate the Soviet forces in northeastern Germany and northwestern Poland;
The Southern Route Army attacked Leipzig, Cottbus, and Poznan along the way, and finally marched to Brislau, eliminating Soviet forces in southeastern Germany, the Czech Republic, and southwestern Poland. Eventually, the north-south cluster of propulsions would need to reach the Danzig-Brislau line, occupying half of Poland's territory west of the Curzon Line.
In this way, the main forces of the Soviet Union that can fight a good war can be eliminated, and the initiative will be in the hands of Britain and the United States, whether to continue to invade the Soviet union or force the Soviet Union to sign a treaty under the city.
This is Churchill's "incredible action." The name of this operation was so good that Truman of the United States thought it was incredible, and the two sides discussed many times, but in the end they were not sure that they would be able to eliminate the main force of the Soviet army, so they did not implement it. The operation became a top-secret archive and was not made public by the British government until 1998.
The Americans are still more refined than the British, and it is likely that they will beat themselves up in a mess, so it is better to become the world's first and harvest the world by other means.
In fact, if you think about it, the United States can become the world's first, which has a lot to do with its unique geographical environment. The east and west oceans, the north and the south, have no strong enemies, which makes it successful in picking peaches in the back during World War I and World War II.
Without the pain of the skin, it certainly would not go out and fight with the Soviet Union. Of course, I am glad that there was no fight that year, otherwise it would be difficult to say what the world would be tossed into by war.