i know that you have been exposed to all sorts of film and video game and political bullshit, and you like the word dunkirk - you don't talk about the same and worse happening to germans in tunis or soviets in crimea - you like your flashy media and political narratives, but you'll fundamentally misunderstand wwii if you forget that the british don't blow their own trumpet. you may end up thinking that the soviets or americans somehow did more to beat germany than britain lol. > > impressive sounding numbers of divisions do not necessarily relate to an actual combat value > impressive sounding numbers of divisions do not necessarily relate to an actual combat value > particularly if they are not often in action. > particularly if they are not often in action. > in terms of contributing to winning the war chinese divisions were a joke, > russian divisions were an exaggeration, > and the vast majority of american divisions were too late to see fighting in the critical years  early 1942 to late 1944  when the tide was turned.  that's the matter of wwii in a nutshell. the british empire exhausted the japan land expansion, so japan lost. the british empire prevented the german expansion across med and africa and atlantic, so germany lost. and the british empire secured everywhere else, that you don't hear about, across middle east, africa, asia, with large formations of elite troops ready to counter strike massive u.s. industry kicked in to gear, and massive swarms of mongolian rape babies ran into machine gun fire, and they secured the game that the british empire won (yet politically threw away as the only real winner of wwii was the americans, because they ended up with the money. soviets lost all their major ambitions of constantinople, scandinavia, middle east, the british and french lost their empires... the germans didn't really do so badly, they ended up with huge investment, but they now live in wall streets pozzed too)
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