downsizing US military

[Sava]

We should have dealt with the Russian problem then. I understand America was war weary and wanted the war to be over... but Patton was right. US should have kept going East and not stopped at Berlin.

[Serb]

"Big deal"? If Germany, the UK and the US had been on the same side in WWII the Soviet Union never would have survived.

Yes, I feel you pain that you have missed the opportunity to exterminate those Russkies once and for all.
But guess what? The Germany has declared war on USA, not vise versa.

[Sava]

Russia is such FAIL.

We didn't even have to beat you. You collapsed all by yourself.

[Serb]

We should have dealt with the Russian problem then.

You see. You just proved me right. I just feel your western pain you have failed to exterminate us. It's in your genes.

I understand America was war weary and wanted the war to be over... but Patton was right. US should have kept going East and not stopped at Berlin.

Boy, the Soviet Army would have wiped the floor with Yanks, Brits and remains of Wehrmacht combined in 1945 in Europe. That's why the operation Unthinkable was never carried out. You are living in a fantasy world created by Hollywood and FOX.

[Serb]

Russia is such FAIL.

We didn't even have to beat you. You collapsed all by yourself.

That's why our troops in Ukraine now and the mighty US can do nothing about that.

[Sava]

Putin says there are no troops in Ukraine.

[PLATO]

Boy, the Soviet Army would have wiped the floor with Yanks, Brits and remains of Wehrmacht combined in 1945 in Europe. That's why the operation Unthinkable was never carried out. You are living in a fantasy world created by Hollywood and FOX.

This is the stupidest thing you have ever said. You realize that the U.S. manufacturing was way beyond anything that you idiots had? You realize that you had just lost 35 million people and the U.S. had only lost 317,000? You realize that the army air corp was producing more planes every 6 months than you did in the entire war? You realize that the U.S. had atomic weapons and you guys wouldn't steal that technology for another few years?

You are an absolute idiot who knows nothing but Putinspeak.

[Sava]

It's in your genes.

My genes? How can anything doing to do with America be in my genes? America has only been around for about 240 years... and my family has only been here for 55 years.

I share more genes with you than with most Americans.

That probably explains why I'm such an asswipe.

[Serb]

This is the stupidest thing you have ever said. You realize that the U.S. manufacturing was way beyond anything that you idiots had?

Vehicles and ground weapons


Country Tanks and self-propelled guns[1] Artillery[2] Mortars[3] Machineguns[4] Military trucks
Soviet Union 92,595 516,648 200,300 1,477,400 197,100
United States 71,067 257,390 105,055 2,679,840 2,382,311

You realize that you had just lost 35 million people and the U.S. had only lost 317,000?

26 million

You realize that the army air corp was producing more planes every 6 months than you did in the entire war?

Aircraft[edit]

Country 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 Total
U.S. 2,141 6,086 19,433 47,836 85,898 96,318 46,001 303,713
USSR 10,382 10,565 15,735 25,436 34,900 40,300 20,900 158,218

You realize that the U.S. had atomic weapons and you guys wouldn't steal that technology for another few years?

And the Soviet Union had such an overwhelming advantage in conventional forces in Europe you had no balls to pull the trigger for the four years while you still had a monopoly on nukes.

[Sava]

And the Soviet had such an overwhelming advantage in conventional forces in Europe you had no balls to pull the trigger for four years while you had a monopoly on nukes.

Nah. Russia just had a lot of obsolete tanks. We didn't want to waste the ammo blowing all of them up.

[molly bloom]

How about you tell me what Soviet satellite wasn't oppressive? Your list is completely irrelevant because I never said no American puppets were oppressive.

No of course you didn't. Could you think of any American backed regimes in the Caribbean or Central or South America that were shining examples of democracy ?

South Korea.

Is this the same South Korea which massacred civilians in Kwangju for daring to protest at martial law ?

But the 10 days in May 1980 were a pivotal time, and had a profound effect on the whole population as the democracy movement took hold all over South Korea.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/752055.stm

Want to tell me the difference between martial law and democracy ?

It is to laugh.

[Serb]

Nah. Russia just had a lot of obsolete tanks. We didn't want to waste the ammo blowing all of them up.

We are talking about 1945 here, not about 1941 (when you had no tanks at all, btw). In 1945 you have nothing close to IS-3.
Anyone who seriously thinks America was ahead of USSR in tank designs, production and combat experience is just a plain lunatic.
Your tanks were pure refined pieces of crap throughout the entire WW2.

[molly bloom]

Ideally, we want and have always wanted democracies.

Oh so it's just accidental that America overthrew functioning elected democracies in Iran and Guatemala then ? And then backed a genocidal regime in Guatemala and the entirely unlovely Shah of Iran and his Savak secret police ?

Nothing to do with American oil interests or United Fruit of course.

[molly bloom]

We generally prefer democracies, since they tend to be more docile.

Trujillo, Somoza, Stroessner, Pinochet (for instance) say not.

[Sava]

We are talking about 1945 here, not about 1941 (when you had no tanks at all, btw). In 1945 you have nothing close to IS-3.
Anyone who seriously thinks America was ahead of USSR in tank designs, production and combat experience is just a plain lunatic.
Your tanks were pure refined pieces of crap throughout the entire WW2.

Tanks are useless. They're good for busting through a trench line. That's it.

Otherwise, they are just juicy targets for AGMs.