Hephaestos said:
errrr lol... yeah germany was losing to russia... cause they had the western front. Without US support, the UK would have dropped and germany could have reallocated resources to fight russia... moreover, without the US, Russia would have had to deal with Japan. And what are you talking about with the atomic bomb... that came after the end of the war in europe, it has nothing to do with anything....
OMG the US invaded Kuwait..... you mean Iraq I hope no? the US never invaded Kuwait... they liberated it from the invasion Sadam had just lead a few weeks before.... and that was with support of the saudis and all the others (muslim countries were favorable to the western forces liberating Kuwait, as getting Kuwait would have given too much weight to Iraq with the oil). |
I should have been more clear...the US liberated Kuwait, alongside Saudi and Egyptian forces. They absolutely did invade Kuwait. The ground and air incursion was made at the behest of the Kuwaiti people who were invaded by the Iraqis a few months earlier. Invade was, however, a poor choice of words. The US military intent was not to plunder Kuwait, so I apologize for the misstatement. The larger point that I was making was that the reason Osama hates the US is because of Desert Storm. Up until that point we were good pals.
At the conclusion of the second world war, the Russians had planned on continuing the push east. They had a tremendous strategic advantage over the Allied forces. While the dropping of the atomic bomb had the effect of forcing Japan's hand and bringing the war to a close, it also showed Stalin that the Americans weren't at a strategic disadvantage.
As for the western front, the eastern front was four times the size of the western front. It was larger than the rest of the phases of the war put together. While it's possible (not likely) that without the western front, the Germans may have been able to overrun Russia, it's almost a certainty that without the Eastern front, the Allies would never have been able to gain a toehold in Europe. Hitler could have pushed for peace with the Americans, and Europe would be speaking a whole lot more German than it is today.
I'm not trying to minimize the heroic contribution of America to WWII. There's no question that without the Americans, the Japanese probably still occupy most of Southeast Asia. There's also no question that the American military machine was the most efficient in the world due to the degree of industrialisation within the US. But to think that the US played a larger role in defeating the Germans than Russia is a poor account of history at best. Even saying that we jumped in and saved England is a stretch. They defeated the German's without American help in the Battle of Britain. The Germans abandoned their plans for an amphibious assault at that time.
I highly suggest reading up on Operation Barbarossa. It will give you some insight as to why the Germans invaded when they souldn't have, and what lengths the Russians were prepared to go to in order to defeat the Germans. Make no mistake, the Russians could have pushed further west at the end of the war. They had superior numbers and shorter supply lines. The atomic bomb was a key deterrent in that respect.
