Immediately after the Second World War, the United States and Britian could have split the world in two FOREVER.
Lets look back at the period of May-August of 1945.
Germany has been defeated, and the USSR has lost 20 million people in the war. France has just been liberated, and has no military. Japan was defeated, and we began to occuply Japan proper and Eastern Asia. Europe was completely held by the US and UK.
The United States was relitivley untouched by the war, the homeland hadn't been touched by the enemie, and we lost a fairly low number of men. There was a massive industrial complex still pumping out war materials.
The USSR was very, very weak. The only country standing in the way of world domination. We could have taken on the Red Army, with many tanks, and a full continent behind us. The Russians would have been broke eventually. Plus the ace up our sleeve was that in '45 we had the bomb.
I am convinced that if not for the strong civilian leadership present in the US, not in the USSR we never took over the world. It could have been done, and the globe would have been ours by 1950.
At the most fruitful point of imperialism, we resisted. Quite amazing if you think about it.
Lets look back at the period of May-August of 1945.
Germany has been defeated, and the USSR has lost 20 million people in the war. France has just been liberated, and has no military. Japan was defeated, and we began to occuply Japan proper and Eastern Asia. Europe was completely held by the US and UK.
The United States was relitivley untouched by the war, the homeland hadn't been touched by the enemie, and we lost a fairly low number of men. There was a massive industrial complex still pumping out war materials.
The USSR was very, very weak. The only country standing in the way of world domination. We could have taken on the Red Army, with many tanks, and a full continent behind us. The Russians would have been broke eventually. Plus the ace up our sleeve was that in '45 we had the bomb.
I am convinced that if not for the strong civilian leadership present in the US, not in the USSR we never took over the world. It could have been done, and the globe would have been ours by 1950.
At the most fruitful point of imperialism, we resisted. Quite amazing if you think about it.