What was the biggest mistake made during WWII?

[Peter666]

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The allies not invading and whiping Russia off the face of the map after the fall of Berlin like Patton wanted to.

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Are you kidding? There was no way we were going to lose millions of lives to attack the Russians. You do know we lost like 300,000 people and the Russians lost approx 20 million? The Western world underestimated the strength of Russia. So did Hitler.

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The Americans had the atomic bomb by the end of the war, they did not need to lose millions of lives in attacking Russia. Patton was right!

No country was as devastated by the war as Russia. It is true that without US supplies it could not survive. It is incredible how many lives were lost by the Russians. There was simply no regard for casualties in Soviet thinking. It was a total fight to the finish.

The Soviet Union would have crumbled and the cold war avoided if the US either had not intervened during the war, or went on to fight the USSR after the Nazis were destroyed.

We are sitting here because the Cuban missle crisis was resolved. Imagine if it had not been? The whole thing could have been avoided if men with guts did their duty 15 years previous.