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You wrote, “Without our intervention and support in the European theater, are you both of the belief that an unfettered Germany would have eventually been defeated by the Soviet regime and European forces?”

You’re talking alternate universe stuff here. I’m simply saying we didn’t ‘save the bacon’ of the Russians during WWII. The expression you employed doesn’t sum up the reality of the situation very well. It isn’t that cut-and-dried—unlike, say, the case of the French or the Belgians or the Dutch—whose bacon, brisket, ribs and hocks we did save, outright, directly, without dispute.

The US and the USSR were allies during WWII. The entire premise of a wartime alliance is to hang together rather than hang separately. So again, no, we didn’t save the Russians. We saved each other, quid pro quo.

It isn’t that cut-and-dried—unlike, say, the case of the French or the Belgians or the Dutch—whose bacon, brisket, ribs and hocks we did save, outright, directly, without dispute.

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Cut and dried, No, perhaps not. Sadly, it appears we may have only saved each other from each other, for now, it seems.

If we had just done our thing and fought the war in the Pacific and then stayed out of the European affair ( I am not an isolationist, btw), the Soviets might still have won, albeit over a longer time period and with likely significant more losses.

Thanks for the reply.