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Would ever Canada dare to follow a different route on major issues than USA?
Without America the rest of the allied powers, against Germany and Japan, the best scenario would be a draw
Moscow was just a battle. A communication center ,nothing more. Napoleon did capture Moscow. So what?I now get what D dedalos was saying, that American economic strength enabled the Allies to pull through, and in that sense, yes, it was our crucial contribution. I misread his point in a manner of sorts. T-34s were often built with imported American steel, planes were fueled often by American avgas of all grades, etc. This is true.
But I think the Germans lost the war once they were turned back at Moscow.
Well if you would say, who would use facts to argue? BTW the Irish Republic was neutral during WW2, Northern Ireland, being part of the UK was involved. Also there are two American continents one called North America and the other called South America. There is actually no such place as "America". Leave present day politics out of discussions using your logic Biden is only president of 27 states.Yes I agree
, America would have a different war to win, but eventually,still,would win, even if it would need atomic weapons.
Without America the rest of the allied powers, against Germany and Japan, the best scenario would be a draw
I am aware of the geography of the American continent. However on major international affairs, the entire continent follows the policy of the dominant country without question. This is a fact at least since the American president Monroe. Would ever Canada dare to follow a different route on major issues than USA? Would have suffered the fate of the Confederate States of America.
On UK case England is also the dominant part of the union. It was never a union of equality. I would say ,that actually it was a polite way to pass the de facto occupation of Scotland,Ireland and Wels without further revolutions and independence wars. Look at the Brexit case. Scotland wanted to remain in EU. England wanted the Brexit. Guess what happened. So ,in reality , it was , and still is England not UK.
And America needed British technology in return, technology such as gun sights, ammunition, sonar, radar, superchargers, jet engines the list goes on, Britain had the know how, America had the ability to produce it.Merlin was the best aero engine of the war , and it was an English design, so what? They had to ask America to help with their production!
Moscow was just a battle. A communication center ,nothing more. Napoleon did capture Moscow. So what?
Twenty six states... using your logic Biden is only president of 27 states...
I've been there. I don't blame you.Twenty six states.
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Saying "English" may be insulting to people today, but it surely wasn't during the war. Lot's of people, including the actual English, called themselves English. Australians were called Australians, South Africans were called South Africans, Indians were called Indians. That comes from talking with people who live in England and Australia. Perhaps, as here in the U.S.A., there are differing opinions in the British Isles. I'd likely say "British" today myself but, during actual the war, saying English wasn't considered wrong. If they were South African and wanted you to know it, they'd tell you. I think we should be able to make allowances for changes in language over 75 years without calling people "ignorant" or getting insulted. They used to say "groovy" in the 1960s and don't today, but I'd not be insulted if I heard it.Dear me, in terms of this discussion "America" and "England" dont figure at all. North America is a continent, the Americas are two continents. North America contains Canada the USA and Mexico. England ceased to be a sovereign state in 1707 with the Act of Union. This is not semantics or pedantry, talking of "England" is not only ignorant it is insulting to all those who werent English but who fought for the commonwealth military. Without USA involvement the war in Europe would have continued, it may have come to a stalemate or there may have been a "winner" if that is possible with so many millions dead. The USA, as has been said already was a major contributor to the war they were in. If the UK was unable or unwilling to fight in 1940 and Russia capitulated in 1941 the USA has a much different war to win.
The name German and Germany was given by the Romans Germani = our brothers . Germans dont call themselves German, the French dont call them German and neither do the Italians. Germans call themselves Deutsch. French is Allemagne/ Allemond (the people who live beyond the Mano river). While Italians say Germania for the country and Todeschi (Theod discuss) for the people. Comically "Wales" is Saxon for outsider or foreigner. What people say and use colloquially is OK as far as it goes but it is frequently wrong. The assertion that Canada always follows the USA and that England is the same as the UK and Commonwealth leads to people believing nonsense. Without Canada, Northern Ireland and Scotland being in the war from 1939 there would have been no battle of the AtlanticIt's a post-modern conceit to pretend that the term "american" refers to anything other than something of, or pertaining to, the United States of America.
People were calling Bavarians, Saxons, Franks, etc., Germans long before Germany existed as a country.
But don't call an Austrian "German". They don't like being reminded.
I think it was in the "Grand Alliance" , that Churchill said something like before the US was in the war he didn't know if the Allies would win, but after the US was in he knew the Allies would win.