so grateful to be living in these times...in AMERICA.
And while Britain deserves MUCH credit in WWII (leadership, monarchy, people and all) —> it’s AMERICA that really had the ultimate victory and seemed to absorb most internally what it really meant to win and what we really fought against.
Europeans were still traumatized from the First World War and didn’t think the much clearer after the Second One either...Though the Brits had their Margaret Thatcher moments...the rest of Western Europe declined so much on a moral and spiritual level.
It took us a lot longer to go into “decline” mode — and just when we were really about to head to a precipice, God gave us Trump so yeah.
The Brits had some of the worst Generals in the war. Montgomery was too cautious and political.
“And while Britain deserves MUCH credit in WWII (leadership, monarchy, people and all) —> it’s AMERICA that really had the ultimate victory and seemed to absorb most internally what it really meant to win and what we really fought against.”
Not just fight against* but fight FOR* :) - wanted to clarify.
>And while Britain deserves MUCH credit in WWII (leadership, monarchy, people and all) —> it’s AMERICA that really had the ultimate victory and seemed to absorb most internally what it really meant to win and what we really fought against.
Britain really only deserves credit for not rolling over like the French did. They fought like crap. The Nazis would have beaten Russia if the UK had made peace, but that’s about their only contrubition to victory.
I’d dasn’t say that the Russians were equal with us, if not more so, in value towards defeating the Nazis.
It’s unbelievable what they went through, suffered and lost.
True, they almost lost the war because of Stalin’s purge of the officer corps, but they were subject to the most brutal invasions possible, and lost many more soldiers than we did.
Ed