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Originally Posted by Hippikos

In WW2 the US was an important factor, not a decisive.

Get the fuck out of here...you're dreaming. Russia was barely holding out, with supplies from the US, and a brutal winter. Had Normandy not been invaded, and the shit bombed out of Germany, Russia would have had to withdraw to Asia.

You can't be so naive as to think GB/Canada/Australia could have mounted D-Day or flattened the German industrial machine without the US.
Russia like the Brits, did a remarkable job of holding out until the calvary arrived, but defeat Germany without the US.....not a chance.

Canada, with less than 10% America’s population, lost more men and materials than the USA did.

Of course, because it had been dragging on for years, but when the US got there they wrapped up the war in what, 6 months?
We lost more to the Spanish Flu than we did to the Huns.
There's no bragging rights in losing men and materials, that's the exact opposite of what you're supposed to do.
You're not supposed to die for your country, you're supposed to kill for your country.