[ClaytonP]

The U.S. was the biggest loser of World War II.

Care to elaborate?

Are you suggesting that we allowed ourselves to get suckered and act against our own interests?

Would a Soviet liberation of Paris been preferable?

Considering how Western Europe has degenerated, I wonder if they would now be on the road to recovery from Communism rather than degenerating into it.

[donmeaker]

Soviet Union (per Glantz who had access to Soviet archives) lost 14.5 million soldiers, and over a million second lieutenants. Who gets to be a 2nd lieutenant? A bright young man with potential for responsibility.

[Squawk 8888]

IMO the USA and Canada were the biggest winners, as they are the only major belligerents to come out of the war stronger (in economic and military terms) than they were going in. Britain, Germany, Japan, China, France, the USSR and Eastern Europe took years to recover while we almost immediately entered an era of unprecedented prosperity.