re: Was there any doubt the US/Allies would win WW2

The Japanese, save for a small minority of fanatical hardliners, had no illusions of defeating the United States outright. Hence why Pearl Harbor and Midway happened. The IJN was trying to destroy the U.S. Pacific Fleet in one go so as to bring the U.S. to the negotiating table from a position of absolute strength. All Japan wanted was oil and other natural resources to continue their ground war on the Chinese mainland.

As long as the US public had the will to endure the losses, there was no doubt we would beat Japan. That was Japan's big gamble. It may have taken twice as long if things like Midway don't go they way they do. But unless the US public decided it became too bloody, Japan had no chance.

As for Germany - they seemed invincible early on. Russian lives and US manufacturing helped turn the tide. As well as bad decisions, bad allies, and bad timing for the German assault on Russia.

LOL - no, that would be all of the European right wingers and industrialists who couldn't stop making deals and concessions to Hitler. You can thank Clement Atlee and the British labor party for getting Churchill in charge. Try a history book.

Every single German land offensive which stalled did so because of lack of fuel thus mobility went to zero.

Russia had fuel, not because of lack of oil but because the U.S. sent entire refining process units to Russia. Without entire manufacturing plants being made in the USA and shipped to Russia, Hitler would have marched through it even with lack of fuel. I paid no attention to this until a Russian refinery manager who came over to look at a refinery I was taking down and liquidated in early 1990's SoCal hadn't of told me that he had 3 identical units like one at that Shell refinery. This was through a translator. His only sentence in English was, "Thank you, President Roosevelt"

Germany really had no choice except to attack Russia as it needed Russia's resources which it had none of. It did have coal.

Germany came damned close to marching through Egypt which would have left Russia's oilfields wide open for the taking from up through the Middle East but ran out of fuel and had to stop after taking part of Egypt.

There is a whole lot of b.s. about Hitler's synthetic fuel. First, Hitler didn't use Fischer Tropsch at all but an I.G. Farben process with chemistry similar to that used in hydrocracking in refineries. Standard Oil applied it to the first hydrocracker ever built (pre-WWII at its Baton Rouge refinery. Second, the process was very expensive and overall never enough fuel was produced to even have a single mobile offensive.

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If hitler hadn’t stopped at the doorstep to Moscow because of his hard on to defeat Stalingrad then he would have conquered Russia and then he would have had all the resources needed.

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Hitler didn’t “stop” at the doorstep of Moscow. The German army ground to a halt when their final push, “Operation Typhoon” was stopped by fresh Soviet reinforcements and a massive blizzard. As for going after Stalingrad, that wasn’t even on Hitler’s mind I’m December 1941 and had no bearing on the Battle of Moscow.

Once hitler was repulsed in 1941, it was clear that Germany would not subjugate the Soviet Union. A negotiated peace was theoretically possible but unlikely given ideology.

Once the US formally entered the war the outcome was assured. It was only a matter of time and casualties at that point.

In January 1943, Vegas had the early line Allies -3.5.

It would have been much more of an unknown had the Germans not invaded Russia.

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