Article reasoning that what ended World War II was not the atom bomb

[Kasz216]

Goatseye said:

enditall727 said:

sethnintendo said:

Kasz216 said:

Russia was no doubt a major fear and played a big part in it... but Nuclear weapons in the end seems like what forced their hand.

Funny that they would rather surrender to us than Russia.  With all their anti USA propaganda that led to citizens jumping off cliffs of Okinawa with their children in fear of surrender.  The higher ups obviously knew that USA would treat Japan better than Russia.  I'm actually more interested in the supposed war of USA vs Russia right after WW2 (aka what led to the Cold War).  The atomic bomb probably stopped Russia in its tracks (T-34 tracks to be precise).  Without it I believe Russia would have declared war on USA, England, and the rest of the Allies to control the rest of Europe.

Why exactly was there even a cold war? Didn't USSR and USA team up to stop the Nazi Germany?

Imagine you and your friend consider yourselves bff and you tell each other all your secrets. Days later you find out he was developing and used a Nuclear Weapon and god knows what else. Would you still trust him? He does everything to stop you from making friendships and launch global proxy wars in countries that are friend of yours.

The start of the cold war was Waaaaaaaay before that.

I mean hell, it's worth noting Communist Russia came to power in the middle of a war in which 'White" russia was allied with the USA and Britain.  Many of the "Allies" in World War 2 sent troops and supplies to russia during the russian civil war to prevent the communists from coming to power... Including the United States.

So the two countries who didn't really trust each other in the first place.  With the USA trying to prevent them from taking over in the first place, and then communist rehtoric being that htey were basically the enemy of all capitalism.

 

That the two would butt heads after becoming two huge fish in a small pond was inevitable.