re: Would the Allies have won WWII without America getting involved?

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The Russian rope-a-dope would have eventually worn Germany down but the sheer bodycount would have likely left the USSR too weakened to dominate Central and Eastern Europe for 45 years. And a protracted war could very well have allowed one or both sides to split the atom. and depopulate Europe.

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This. The amount of material we gave the USSR let them stay in the fight and bleed out the Nazis. Without our support, it would have been a much longer war.

Hard to say which is better, let them fight it out and eventually use nukes on each other, or do what we did. Sure, Germany was evil, but the Soviet Union was no better.

LC