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

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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.

LMAO!  When the hell did Russia / the USSR and the United States EVER consider each other to be "bffs"???  It just so happened that the US and Russia ended up having a mutual enemy during WWII in Nazi Germany, but for different reasons.  Germany attacked the US's allies in Western Europe, and they began extending their reach to Eastern Europe and parts of Russia as well, essentially making the same mistake as Napoleon did.

Ever since the revolution of 1917, Russia and the US had complete political and ideological differences with one another, and this came to a climax post-WWII when they were the only two "superpowers", and both tried to impose their will and vision on as much of the world as possible.