>Beat up a couple of guidos in the Mediterranean and North Africa >Abandon France and hide on your island >Wait for American help >Contribute about as much in terms of combat strength as Canada >Firebomb Dresden and kill hundreds of German civilians for spite >Mostly just serve as a giant aircraft carrier for the US invasion of Northwestern Europe
France:
>Spend years and millions of francs constructing a line of fortresses while thinking Germany totally won't just invade you via Belgium again >Outdated WWI tactics prove useless against German tanks and aircraft >Half the population willingly collaborates with the Germans and most of your women sleep with German soldiers >The Resistance are mainly communists
Australia:
>Fight the Japanese in a savage series of battles in PNG >Get pissed that 20,000 of your women marry American soldiers
Russia:
>Ignore repeated Allied warnings that a German invasion is imminent >Drive them back to Berlin simply by throwing bodies at them until they break >While relying on Lend-Lease for most of your medicine, shoes, radios, and trucks >Rape every female in Berlin from the ages of 8 to 70 >Make half of Europe your slaves for 45 years
>Give Britain supplies in 1940-41 but don't actually enter the war until Japan attacks first >Do 80% of the fighting in the Pacific >Atomic bombs spare everyone from a horrible bloodbath invading Japan that could have resulted in 1 million or more deaths >Bankroll the entire Allied war effort
China:
>Britain sinks your navy for kicks >Get done butchering each other in your 500th civil war >Chiang Kai-Shek takes Allied money and pockets it while doing jack-all to fight the Japanese >Have tens of thousands of your civilians raped, murdered, and used for human experimentation by the Japanese >Have most of your best farmland occupied by the IJA >Japan only leaves after V-J Day, never having lost a pitched battle to the Chinese >The CCP now claims credit for defeating Japan even though they spent the entire war hiding in caves and sometimes collaborating with the IJA
Eli Roberts
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James Bennett
Is the alliance with Japan a benefit for the United States?
Jayden White
>>Drive them back to Berlin simply by throwing bodies at them until they break
Biggest myth is the idea the Soviets used massive waves of men to fight the heavily outnumbered but superior German troops. In fact both countries fielded similar numbers of divisions during most of the real fighting, and while the Soviets would start to gain a big numerical advantage by 1943, by that time the outcome of the war had already been largely decided. Russian losses had been massive, particularly in 1941, but the soviets never had a noticeable advantage in deployed troops during the deciding struggle of 1941/42. It's worth noting that at the start of operation Barbarossa, the German army outnumbered the Soviets by 4 to 3. It's also worth noting that Soviet battlefield casualties weren't that much higher than the Germans, and the high figure for Soviet military deaths becomes much closer to Germany's once the mass murder of Soviet PoWs is excluded. Much of the rest of the difference in casualties can be attributed to Soviet defeats in the chaos of the initial surprise attack by Germany.
Cooper White
>While relying on Lend-Lease for most of your medicine, shoes, radios, and trucks
The US contributions to the Soviet Union through lend-lease accounted for a measly 1.3% of the USSR war budget
A total of $50.1 billion worth of supplies was shipped, or 17% of the total war expenditures of the U.S. In all, $31.4 billion went to Britain, $11.3 billion to the Soviet Union, $3.2 billion to France, $1.6 billion to China, and the remaining $2.6 billion to the other Allies.
That's chump change, and they provided it for 4.5 years (March 11, 1941 and ended in September 1945). Not exactly the saviors you're claiming they are. For comparison, in a single year (1945) Russia spent 17 times that ($192 billion). If we assume the 11.3 billion was spread out equally, then the US contributed a measly 2.5 billion in 1945. That equates to a total US contribution of 1.3% of the USSR war budget.
Sebastian Garcia
Yes we know. America came in late, fought a bunch of nip manlets, killed German 14 year olds and elderly, dropped a few nukes and take credit for everything. You have a great education system
Hunter King
>nip manlets >basically every country besides the USA that has fought Japan in a proper war has lost
Nathaniel Martinez
>thinking Germany totally won't just invade you via Belgium again That was one of the purpose of the Maginot line, to force Germany to invade through a neutral country and it did work as intended
>Half the population willingly collaborates with the Germans and most of your women sleep with German soldiers Collaboration did happen a lot but what people consider "collaborating" is hugely vague, just submitting to Nazi authorities at gunpoint could get you branded as a collaborator after the liberation
Gabriel Barnes
America did dominate most of the Pacific theater at least.
