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Originally Posted by RPKESQ
Seahawk, in all due respect, you are making an apples to oranges comparison. I made not claims that the US was not the dominate world wide power. I stated that in the European Theater the Russians did most of the actual battlefield work of defeating the Germans. Let's stick to that, OK? Can you provide evidence to the contrary?
I agree completely that no other country could have done what we did on a world wide scale in WW II. But that was not the item being discussed, was it?
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If you want to discuss WWII, it is absolutely imperative that you include the whole tapestry.
For example, had the US not had to fight the world over, a second front could have been opened earlier, relieving much of the horror the Russians faced. In fact, a third front could have been opened.
I studied the Russian perspective in college and find their heroic struggle to be one of the most compelling in history. But any good student of history should look deeper, to the reasons why the Russians had to struggle...and those reasons are found both in the apple and the orange.
And I'll stick to whatever position I see fit. And the initial item being discussed was NATO, was it not?