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Norway wants US Marines
On Fri, 15 Jun 2018 07:31:42 -0400, John H.
wrote: On Thu, 14 Jun 2018 19:48:11 -0400, wrote: On Thu, 14 Jun 2018 13:37:34 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: The USA did a lot to help beat the Germans and save Europe but sometimes I think we tend to minimize the contributions and sacrifices made by Russia. It the Germans had not screwed up and attacked Russia we might be looking at a completely different Europe, one that speaks German. If the Germans had simply concentrated on invading the UK in the summer of 41, and not instituting operation Barbarosa, I doubt anyone would have been able to stop them. The US was still pretending to be neutral at the time. If we really had to try to take back all of Europe from Western Africa with no infrastructure to support an invasion force and the Germans pretty much controlling the Atlantic from Gibraltar to Iceland along with choking off the Med and owning it, I don't even know how we would get there. I am not even sure we would try. Sounds like you watched WWII in Color! .... or just about any other objective look at the war. The Germans had the ability to own all of Europe but Hitler let his ego and racism override his general's advice. He thought the Russians would be easy to beat and that was the worst mistake of the war. The Japanese really screwed him tho by attacking Pearl Harbor and getting the US into the war. Then he doubled down on that by declaring war on us himself. If he had just stayed quiet about the US and let us turn our focus west we might have actually backed off the help we were giving the Brits. So many of the things that affected major turning points were really bad decisions or in decisions by Hitler. I am watching Hitler's Inner Circle now on Netflix. They are talking about all of the infighting among the higher ups in the reich. It certainly does not look like one big happy family. |
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