[SJackson]

Buchanan has it backwards; going into Russia doomed any chance Hitler had of defeating Britain

Perhaps, but from Pat's perspective you have to erase lend-lease, to Russia and the Brits, from the equation. Stalin might have been defeated without US support, and Hitler's belief that England could have been starved into submission could well have come to be.

[trane250]

During the 2nd world war, the United States alone supplied the following to the Soviet Union: 92% of all railroad locomotives, rolling stock and rails, 57% of all aviation fuel, 53% of all explosives, 74% of all truck transport, 88% of all radio equipment, 53% of all copper, 56% of all aluminum, 60+% of all automotive fuel, 74% of all vehicle tires, 12% of all armored vehicles and 14% of all combat aircraft. But the most important commodity that the US supplied was тушилка. Know what that was Scoop, baby?