The war was fought the way it was with the goal of preserving American lives compared to Russian ones. If the Allies wanted to preserve Russian lives, the best

The war was fought the way it was with the goal of preserving American lives compared to Russian ones. If the Allies wanted to preserve Russian lives, the best way of doing so would have been to do the Normandy landings years earlier, instead of dragging their feet in Italy and the North African front. The primary motivator for them eventually invading France was to preserve France and a fraction of Germany from being under Soviet control.