Would have won it without us. Creating an Eastern Front lost Hitler the war.
German infrastructures not touched, the war supplies their oil industry they are cranked out 24/7...
there’s no strategic bombing during the day destroying German industry there’s no strategic bombing the night from the Brits
if we’re not in the war Russia’s getting no material supply from us
consider all the German troops free not tied up in France on the Atlantic Wall or in North Africa or in Greece or in the Mediterranean
now add in the Japanese if they decided instead of going after us they just kept going from China and attacking the Russians on the other side
all war in the long strategy is a Siege it’s the dry up the other sided supplies and material so they have no longer a capacity to fight... if they have an industrial base behind them is cranking ing out material of men or you’re not going to beat him you have to strangle them
the key to war is material and supply the logistics to transport it there and the Men you cut that supply line you destroy it and you can’t lose
no bullets no guns no bombs no planes no tanks no trucks no gas no food no victory
The ensuing attack on the morning of June 22, 1941, was the largest military confrontation in human history, creating a front line that extended 1,000 miles (1,600 km) from north to south (practically the distance from Seattle to Los Angeles). At the outset, the operation involved three million Axis soldiers (across 117 army divisions), 3,580 tanks, 7,184 artillery guns, 1,830 planes, and 750,000 horses. In defense, the Russians amassed 132 army divisions, including 34 armoured divisions.
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Take out England first. Consolidate Europe.
Napoleon also erred invading Russia.
Had Hitler continued to deal with Stalin he could have cut up Eastern Europe and remained in power another 20 years.
<< now add in the Japanese if they decided instead of going after us they just kept going from China and attacking the Russians on the other side >>
Which had been Japan’s expectation and strategic plan for many years...a major reason that the Imperial Japanese Army fared so poorly in the Pacific, following the sudden successes of 1941-42, is that they were effectively out of their element. They had been planning for a land war in Manchuria and Siberia...not a war of isolated outposts in the tropics, that required them to rely on easily-severed supply lines from merchant ships and the hated Imperial Navy.