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General Patton and a ton of other military generals wanted to invade Russia. The way Russia treated it's army, prisoners of war, the ideological differences and many other factors led to a potential alternate history where the US invades Russia after WW2.

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It wasn't just Patton, there were a lot of other psychotic generals high up in the U.S. command structure like Curtis LeMay (inspiration for Jack D. Ripper) who wanted to go fully off leash in fighting communism, use nukes in Korea, etc. In the end we did use biological weapons and kill 5% of North Korea's civilian population, so one could argue that besides "no nukes" there wasn't all that much restraint in the end after all.

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