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the one great lesson of WW2 took decades and that was the Fire Brigade
US did though sacrifice many men in that war. normandy was bloody.
US didn't make any difference in the outcome. The US should have never been involved.
How does the Fire Brigade work?
With all due respect for the people that went to that war, the US didn't make any difference in the outcome.
richwicks says
US didn't make any difference in the outcome. The US should have never been involved.
The Soviets would have starved in 1943 and surrendered. Right now you are seeing Russia operate it's military without massive US (and British) aid that they had in WW2.
If not for the English and Americans in the West, WWII would have ended with Soviet domination of Europe.
All the Soviets have to show for it is their enormous losses (of which they are idiotically proud) stemming mostly from flawed tactics and general disregard for human lives.
The Soviets, and the Allies, both enormously overestimated their losses in WWII in order to divvy of the spoils of war.
Again, that was accomplished with the Marshall Plan.
In WWII the US has basically fed, clothed, provided arms and transportation for the Red Army and material for the stuff they manufactured themselves.
"I want to tell you what, from the Russian point of view, the president and the United States have done for victory in this war. ...The most important things in this war are the machines.... The United States is a country of machines. Without the machines we received through Lend-Lease, we would have lost the war." -- Joseph Stalin at the November 1943 Tehran conference
"If the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war. One-on-one against Hitler's Germany, we would not have withstood its onslaught and would have lost the war. No one talks about this officially, and Stalin never, I think, left any written traces of his opinion, but I can say that he expressed this view several times in conversations with me." -- Nikita Khrushchev in his memoirs
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