re: At full strength who was more powerful in ww2 Germany or US?

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. I'm curious if Germany never attacks Russia could the US have defeated Germany when they were at full strength?

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Yes

We supplied the USSR with the modular refineries and technical know how to mass produce vehicles. The Red Army had a shiiteload of US trucks and even Sherman tanks. The ruled the skies with high octane sulfur free gasoline made from CF Braun (Alhambra, CA) built desulphurization units and reformers which are likely still in use today and certainly were in the 1990's

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if hitler doesnt attack russia and japan doesnt attack pearl harbor russia and USA sit out ww2 and germany solidifies its power and control of all of europe

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u write gud

Both armies were heavily drugged up

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We didn't bomb Normandy nearly long enough before invading.

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1 the invasion was dependent on a relatively rare confluence of weather, moon and tide. These windows were usually weeks apart. When an opportunity presented itself they had to take it

2. The lack of prolonged heavy bombardment was part of a deliberate deception plan to make the Germans believe the main landing would come at the Pas de Calais. It worked to perfection. Even after the Normandy landings were days old, Hitler refused to commit reserves to Normandy, thinking it was a diversion. While the lack of bombardment may have cost lives initially, it saved lines in the long run. At any event, we were ashore and moving inland at the end of day one. Omaha Beach notwithstanding, the invasion couldn't have gone much better

If Hitler would have stopped in 1939 just short of invading Poland he could have built a Third Reich and nobody would have stopped him. Hell he might have even been able to hold France and Poland and held the peace deal with Stalin. But no…. He had to take it all and it led to his downfall… thankfully.

Both Germany and Japan ran the math before the war started. Their strategists knew that even at full strength they couldn’t win a war with the US long term. The point of
Pearl Harbor was to destroy the US carriers , take Midway and Hawaii, and force a settlement with the threat of west coast invasion. Yamamoto knew they were screwed when he didn’t destroy any carriers at PH

Germany’s entire strategy depended upon the US not entering the war at any point. PH amd the declaration of war on Germany that followed really ranked up not only US production , but what the US lent/leased to the UK and USSR. It also increased the merchant shipping to those allows. Most likely , USSR falls in 42 without the US built supplies and raw goods coming into it. At that point , the UK falls.

Even under best circumstances , neither could out manufacture the US under any circumstances. I used to know the numbers, but at max capacity the US out produced both 3–1. The biggest strategic error both countries made is the failure to produce a long range bomber. The US pounded the strategic infrastructure of both countries from jump. It severely handicapped both countries. At best, Japan and Germany could impact the supply chain via U boats, but never the production capacity.

Easy. The US. We were loaded on natural resources for war. We were located outside the war zone. Germans only hope was to subdue England before we enter the war. Had Germany water another year for the Russia campaign it would have been different. The us was an isolationist and we were way behind on our military. But, as Yamamoto stated, we were a sleeping giant with mass industry. It took WWII to finally get out of the Great Depression.

But with our industry unmolested from bombing it having resources cut off we were rebuilding way faster then were were losing. Germany couldn’t replenish losses and needed Russian Caucasus oil to continue the fight.

The US by ten times. Geez, why is this even a question?

The US had a population twice the size of Germany. Plus we had far superior resources.