Is this in reaponse to bullet point 2? Because I agree evaluations that the war would not have been won without Russia look at the loss of life on the eastern front and end there. It certainly helped to have Germany fighting on two fronts, but I dont the the evaluation that it would have been lost without Russia fully considers the industrial power of the rest of the allies.
About 90% of the German military was tied up on the eastern front. The western front mostly had second and third rate divisions and air support was completely unheard of.
Would the western allies have won without Russia? Probably. The US had 50% of the entire world's industrial power at the time and on paper could have fought the entire world at once.
But without Russia there would have been millions of American casualities. The UK probably would have ceased to exist as a state, by 45 they were strapped for manpower.
The post war of this scenario wouldn't be a time of economic boom, prosperity, and a population high on victory. It would have been a society that for all intents and purposes would have been gutted. In debt, and suffering from massive social strife. Look at Europe directly after WW1 and that would have been the US after WW2 in this world.
Is this in reaponse to bullet point 2? Because I agree evaluations that the war would not have been won without Russia look at the loss of life on the eastern front and end there. It certainly helped to have Germany fighting on two fronts, but I dont the the evaluation that it would have been lost without Russia fully considers the industrial power of the rest of the allies.
About 90% of the German military was tied up on the eastern front. The western front mostly had second and third rate divisions and air support was completely unheard of.
Would the western allies have won without Russia? Probably. The US had 50% of the entire world's industrial power at the time and on paper could have fought the entire world at once.
But without Russia there would have been millions of American casualities. The UK probably would have ceased to exist as a state, by 45 they were strapped for manpower.
The post war of this scenario wouldn't be a time of economic boom, prosperity, and a population high on victory. It would have been a society that for all intents and purposes would have been gutted. In debt, and suffering from massive social strife. Look at Europe directly after WW1 and that would have been the US after WW2 in this world.