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To: bentway who wrote (191753)	7/17/2006 2:56:52 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi J. Chris Parson; Re: "The Russians carried 70-80 percent of the fight against the Germans in WWII. ..." I agree with everything you say. However, just because the Soviet Union did, in fact, beat the Germans in WW2, that is not evidence that the United States COULD NOT beat the Germans. Go look at the details for the degree of industrialization, population and access to natural resources for the United States and Germany in 1940 before you argue that the US could not beat Germany. All these facts about Russian tanks have little to do with how the Americans would have fought the war. We would have primarily used air power. If the war had gone on sufficiently long, Germany would have found itself facing more and more better and better US military forces of all sorts. The US was a LOT bigger than Germany. We got involved in the war a little later than most, and naturally our armed forces were correspondingly more primitive than they'd otherwise been. But by 1950 there is no question that we'd have far exceeded the Germans in ability. When I say that the US would have beaten Germany without help from the USSR, I don't mean to imply that Hitler would have been defeated in May 1945 by the US alone. What I mean to say is what I did say, that we would beat Germany. Maybe it would have taken an extra 5 years, but the result cannot have been in doubt. Our soldiers kicked Germany's ass in WW1 (with only about six months of fighting), when Russia was knocked out, and we could have done it again in WW2, even without the assistance of the French. -- Carl