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Erik Rutins -> RE: Could the allies have won WW2 without the USA? (7/22/2009 5:27:07 PM)
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ORIGINAL: SS Hauptsturmfuhrer
Continuing the recent wave of age old what ifs about WW2. I think WW1 was easily winnable by England, Canada and France without the USA, but for WW2 it's a harder call. This question is a bit muddled by the way the US cheated during it's neutral time by shipping grotesque amounts of war goods to the UK and Russia. So my question is could the allies have won with the USA and Japan not going to war but the USA continues it's underhanded support while staying 'neutral'.
This is interestingly worded. The US "cheated" and was "underhanded", shipping "grotesque" amounts of war good to the UK and Russia. I always saw it as the US doing everything it could within the technical limits of neutrality, to support the countries that were under siege by a ruthless totalitarian regime (of course the USSR was also a ruthless, totalitarian regime, but "the enemy of my enemy" applied).
Were you intending to create a controversial thread or are you unaware how that comes across? Between this and the "You Soldier" post, these remind me of some previous threads here that did indeed go semi-ballistic, though I can't recall if you started those or it was someone else.
Regards,
- Erik
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