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QuoteGermany would have won after focusing all its attention on annihilating Russia.
That's a frighteningly misguided opinion!
Sure Bill all those men and women who were abandoned in the PI were left there because we just felt like it huh?
And dugout Doug only felt like going for a nice boat ride.
And dugout Doug only felt like going for a nice boat ride.
outrager 6
QuoteWe nearly lost in the Pacific, North Africa, and Italy was so costly that it made the Normandy Invasion seem very unrealistic.
A threat of loosing remote islands and colonies on the other side of the world, at worst, is as far from "back to the wall" as it gets.
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If the US or the UK had lost in WWII, Germany would have won after focusing all its attention on annihilating Russia.
This is as wrong and misinformed as it gets, too.
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When you want to claim the US did not have it as hard as it did just remember, the only thing that saved us at first was merely distance.
What you just said (distance and isolation) alone wipes out your "back to the wall" claim entirely. It's truly unbelievable you can set yourself up like that and don't see it
Any kid who played a strategy game can figure it out
There's nothing that could have been done to continental US. Just sit back, relax and build up armed forces. No other countries had that leisure.
QuoteJust look at how many Americans were lost and realize that no US cities were bombed nor any significant attack on the continental US. (excluding Attu and Kiska)
You keep proving my points
could possibly mount a serious attack on continental US.
QuoteWe paid dearly, whats wrong we didn't have as many people die as you would have liked?
American losses were orders of magnitude less than in countries that did have their backs to the wall. Further on, nearly all of US losses were suffered not defending the country (continental US) but rather defending it's "interests" on the other side of the globe.
Kinda like what's happening now: fighting over resources and world's dominance.
bsbd!
Yuri.
99% of those americans were sent into a war zone where other armies were fighting. That's why they died. We never had "our backs to the wall." We never lost any major cities. We never lost a major battle (outside of perhaps Pearl Harbor, which wasn't a battle so much as a bombing campaign.)
We put a tremendous amount of effort into World War II - but it would be difficult to claim we barely won, or that the odds were against us.
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