genuinely people who hold this opinion and wonder wistfully about it should be executed by firing squad. The 'Armchair historian' youtube channel just did a whole thing about it and genuinely i regard this man as worthy of being dumped in acid for this video alone.
the allies after going to war with the nazis, declaring war on the soviets, rebuilding the fascist army, would probably lose spectacularly.
Im not saying that that soviets would have rolled over them like paper, but the idea that the allies would gain any more than a Pyrrhic stalemate after losing in france and italy is so fucking dumb. the people who know the devastation after ww2 and are like 'i want another one just to destroy the soviets' are as anticommunist as the nazis and should be treated as such. they should also follow their fucking leader.
There is the A-bomb factor to consider, once the allied armies start retreating to Paris. Though at that point the US could only drop one as fast as they could make it, and I'm sure nuking downtown Moscow or Kiev would only hasten the Soviets' own nuclear program. Regardless the nuclear terrorism precident set by the US would be horrifying. States would probably be dropping nukes at the beginning of every war after that. Humanity might not survive that reality. Yeah, people who want that are fucking insane.
Nukes back then werent like now. You need to be able to get a plane to where you wanna drop it. Back then planes didnt have the biggest range, and they didnt have stealth tech. It would be more realistic for them to nuke berlin or something but i doubt theyd get anywhere near moscow without having some sort of ground support close by.