Operation Unthinkable: Churchill’s Plan to Start World War III

The first part is interesting, but biased. The second part is a repeat of half truths and political conspiracy theories.

All of the allies were concerned in the final days of world war 2 that the Russians would not stop at Germany nor comply with the Various agreements prior to the end of the war. The Germans and hitler himself also beloved this and beloved it would be his salvation from the soviet bear. In retrospect the first turned out not to be the case, while the iron curtain and the path of complete and utter defeats toon that the USSR left behind in the blood lands (Poland and East Prussia) ended up justifying The second concern.

The brits were also worried because America was mostly going it alone in the pacific - and the battle to keep American resources focused on Europe and not japan had completely disappeared after the battle of the buldge.

Churchill was exhausted by the end of the war, and badly out of touch. But he was also pointing out the very thing that would define the next 50 years - a Stalinist war was coming. Thankfully, it ended up being a Cold War and not world war 3...

Not a particularly good article. For example:

> The Soviets had 9380 fighter aircraft and 3380 bombers.

This is deceptive as none of those bombers were strategic, they were primarily twin-engined tactical types ( B-25 or A-26 class ).

In fact until they cloned the B-29 in the late 1940s the Soviets has never had success with long-ranged multi-engined bombers, oddly just like the Germans.

In contrast the Allied fleets were heavily strategically-orientated.

Similarly with 'rockets'. The Soviets used rocket artillery in every operation but it was short-ranged tactical stuff, posing no risk to the UK. Until they could clone the V-2 and get near enough the coast to use it then rocket-bombardment was impossible.

So I can see why Churchill thought it was a good moment to strike; hardened strategic forces against a tactically-organised opponent.

Agreed with the rest of the commenters.

This article starts with a kernel of truth and blows it out of proportion for some weird current-day political agenda that I almost couldn't be bothered to look up.

Surprise, surprise: Russia Beyond is owned by the parent organization of RT.

A helpful book in understanding the real Winston Churchill is Nicholson Baker's "Human Smoke"