It's no accident that we were the country which built the armed forces that destroyed the Axis.
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Joanna responded:
NO. The Russians destroyed the Axis.
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Just so.
To be sure, LBOTALK is not the place to fully discuss the Second World War's course. Several reasons immediately come to mind: the breadth and depth of the topic, the fact that it's not of immediate concern, the (quite sensible) limitations on the daily number and kilobyte weight of posts and the tendency of some folks to ignore presented facts with Zelda Fitzgerald-like abandon (without the crazy sexy coolness) pushing their beloved points before them like Sisyphus.
So, I suspect no amount of data about the Wermacht's near total destruction at the relentless hands of an avenging Red Army will convince our Boddi that this, and not the superior "legal structure" of the US (creating new vistas for capital creation apparently) was the decisive factor paving the way for the success of the US's European invasion.
Now the Pacific war is a different story - that was indeed primarily a bloody contest between the US and the Empire of Japan. I suppose an argument could be made that the US's greater productive capacity out machined the Japanese (creating an opening for Boddi's 'better credit system' argument) but that's no doubt only a slice of the tale. The outcome only seems inevitable now with the hazy hindsight of over half a century of war movies and documentaries.
A re-arranged carrier battle here, a different strategy by the Japanese 'strike south' faction there and things might have ended quite differently.
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