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Truman really should have let Patton march into Russia.

any such invasion by US would've been doomed to fail. the only conceivably realistic way to break USSR would've been to use nukes on them in the 4 year head start US had on them on the atom bomb imo.

any such invasion by US would've been doomed to fail. the only conceivably realistic way to break USSR would've been to use nukes on them in the 4 year head start US had on them on the atom bomb imo.

Whatever means necessary.

U. S, & A

Putin would push the button,no doubt,let the Russkies deal with their problem

Whatever means necessary.

yeah, hard pass. no thanks. i think Hiroshima and Nagasaki were war crimey enough on our end.

The US's military might hasn't been wholly unleashed in 80 years.  We've had to be surgical, careful, nuanced, and not against an official national entity. 
Basically no one has done anything to have us go all Israel on them.
And that's on purpose.

IF a country officially and directly attacked us, we'd unleash the fury and erase them from the planet.
They know this.

So they're not stupid.  That's all.

The US was very tired of war in April, 1945, and funds were starting to be short.  The Russians had about three times as many divisions in Europe as the US albeit smaller ones.  Russia had much better tanks, comparable fighters, very tough experienced soldiers, and ton of artillery.  Patton would not have "marched to Moscow".  It would have been an incredibly tough fight, probably ending in stalemate.

You might say "Well, we had the bomb", in August anyway, but not many of them, and only transferrable using the B-29, which was hardly immune to opposing fighters and not really tactically useful.  And we didn't have many of them.

I don't think it was at all a viable option to have attacked Russia in 1945.  We still had the war in the Pacific going on as well.