But what if the US had not supplied the USSR with so much material that helped enabled it (despite Stalin's absurd programs executing military leadership) to become an advancing army, getting to Berlin first? What if humanitarian assistance was given but only enough military aid was supplied in order for Stalin to stave off Germany? Lots of "ifs" in history as well as Scripture.
If the USA had not supplied the USSR with materiel the USSR would have collapsed in 1942/43
If humanitarian assistance was given but lesser military aid then the USSR would have collapsed.
Bluntly, without American manufacturing prowess, the USSR stood no chance against the Germans
If we hadn’t been supply the USSR they would have lost. Then the vast majority of people and material Germany had on the Eastern Front would have instead been on the Western Front, and we have a much tougher war and maybe don’t even win it.
Not really.
There are a lot of Ifs in history yes, and that's also in the historical books of the Bible (Kings, Maccabees, Acts, etc.) which are linear.
In the case of apocalyptic books like Daniel, Apocalypse/Revelation etc. the imagery is not liner particularly
In the case of history, yes, that's linear, but to take a Stoic concept - the end result is the same, the flows may vary based on the particular iteration of the universe.... :)
“But what if the US had not supplied the USSR with so much material that helped enabled it (despite Stalin’s absurd programs executing military leadership) to become an advancing army, getting to Berlin first? “
Then Stalin’s choice would have been to do what we feared, which is to arrange a separate peace with Germany. And that would have freed up 3 million German troops to join the battle against us on the western front.