“Kelly & Mattis are sterling examples of why we haven’t won a war since WWII.”
We had a helluva costly time doing it in Europe and maybe wouldn’t have won without the Russian pressure on the Eastern Front.
Yes, and the Russians might not have won if Japan hadn’t bombed Pearl Harbor. No longer concerned about Japanese aggression, Stalin moved additional troops to the Western front to stop the Wehrmacht.
I hear that bs from Russians all the time about how they won WW2. A few tings to consider: Russia didn’t fight the Germans in North Africa or on the island of Sicily or the Italian mainland. The Russians didn’t posses a navy that ended the U boat threat in the North Atlantic. The Russians didn’t participate in the greatest sea borne invasion in history, that being The Normandy Landings. The Russians didn’t posses a strategic air force that pounded German cities and war industries into dust as did the American 8th. Air Force and the RAF. Other than that, yeah, it’s fair to say the Russians helped a bit. Of course, that’s before they signed a non aggression pact with Hitler allowing them to snap up the Baltic States and invaded Poland two weeks after the Germans did AND invaded Finland.