Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "Would Stalin attack the West? Operation Unthinkable 1945" video.

  1. Yeah. It's their job to know the cost of peace and the prize of war. In fact, until WWI the US maintained up to date plans for war with Britain that all amounted to "take Canada before the British fleet arrives and uses Canada as a base."
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  2. It's a subject widely understudied in the western world simply because at the time we knew nothing of them.
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  3. The Soviet skew on tanks is mostly a matter of relative pricing and tactics. First their one vsst open terrain that favors tanks and mobile offensive weapons. Second they got lots of steel but not so much high grade aviation fluid and not so many big industrial cities pushing out trainloads of cars.
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  4. Not even Machiavelli was a Machiavellian.
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  5.  @eduardoocampo9901  They would not be surprised, given the extremes of information security in the USSR
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  6. Not all of it, but a lot of it.
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  7. Most US politicians didn't want to "weeken Britain" as much as they wanted to promote peace, democracy, and independence of small nations regardless how flatly contradictory these goals were.
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  8. One thing is certain, Poland would have been a slaughter field.
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  9.  @eduardoocampo9901  no one cares
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