[ropeadopepope]

> they could've fairly easily taken the rest of the exhausted Europe.

From Patton's journal, taken from The Patton Papers, 1940–1945, edited by Martin Blumenson:

> 18 May

> In my opinion, the American Army as it now exists could beat the Russians with the greatest of ease, because while the Russians have good infantry, they are lacking in artillery, air, tanks, and in the knowledge of the use of the combined arms’ whereas we excel in all three of these. If it should be necessary to fight the Russians, the sooner we do it the better.

[aeontech]

Perfectly reasonable statement in his position, but I don’t see how it translates to “we were fighting the wrong enemy all along.”

[ropeadopepope]

Patton said, word for word, "We defeated the wrong enemy" when he was relieved of his command. Which is trivial to find had you spent 10 seconds in google.