re: #23 KGxvi

Our view of history is always colored. Ask an American how the allies won WWII and they’ll say it’s because we beat the Germans. Ask a Russian, and they’ll say it was because of them. Ask the Brits, ask the French…

But yeah, the Iraq war build up was a shit show, made even worse with hindsight.

And really, they would all have a point. Without the Brits fighting on after the fall of France, the US would have lost a vital jumping off point and the Soviets would have lost a lot more Lend-Lease Aid to u-boats. Without the Eastern Front bleeding the Nazis white, the Kriegsmarine would have had more resources to plow into bombers and submarines, eventually knocking the Brits out of the war. Without French partisans gathering intel and sabotaging the Reich’s occupation troops, D-Day would have been a lot bloodier and the drive to Berlin much longer. The Aussies, the Dutch, the Kiwis, etc, etc.