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Originally Posted by Rick Lee
But... if there were no US boots on the ground or even bombing campaigns, the Russians obviously would not have stopped at the Elbe. They'd have gone all the way to France maybe farther. That would have made for a very different Cold War.
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The Russians would have never gotten out of Russia.
Germany, without the threat of a second front
anywhere (Italy, Japan, Africa, etc., no strategic bombing) gathers more countries into the fold. Solidifies. England isn't a threat.
Stalin sues for peace, the AXIS powers expand, Germany gets the bomb first since the Manhattan Project doesn't happen.
The planet is different.
Japan owns the East, Germany the West. Canada and the US worry about an invasion from the south.