re: What’s an American history hot take you’ve got?

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I don't know about that one. I know where it comes from, and you're not wrong in that thinking. But my counter point is this. The Russians were using US Trucks, US food and US bullets. Without American logistics, Russia gets overrun in year two of Barbarossa.

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The US had the material, Russia had the men and the political will to sacrifice millions to defeat the Nazi’s. The Eastern Front was personal between the Nazi’s and the Soviet’s.

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*dishonorable; and honorable.

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Why? Not asking to be smart, just honestly don't understand why an adverb wouldn't be acceptable here.

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Democrats and Republicans fight on TV, then go to Capital Grill and have dinner on my dime every night.

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Once you come to the realization that they are all on the same team (pro wrestling for the intellectual), then it all makes sense.

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It cracks me up when people come in with this like it hasn't been known since the incident itself took place and people come here acting like they've learned a secret of history Everybody knew what was set up at the time. There had been previous attempts to get media attention on the issue; there was still segregated bussing in Birmingham That's a historical fact

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Can you imagine how scared those cops were asking a black lady to move on the bus

With how much we know we are being manipulated today, I imagine half the “history” we know isn’t accurate.

I think that the Alamo at a certain point became
death by dying heroically for Travis and Crockett ..
I think Bowie was out of it at that point

but they did stay they knew what they were facing and they stayed and it did by Sam Houston some time

Now whether it was a smart move yeah that's absolutely open for debate

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What’s an American history hot take you’ve got?

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Not sure if this qualifies as a hot take, but in all wars between peoples, whether it be nation vs nation, or conqueror vs conquered, there is no clear division of good vs evil. There is nothing except for various shades of grey.

George Washington was not our first president.

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I'm aware of lend lease, overall that was maybe 15% of Russia's military resources,

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It wasn’t the amount of overall resources that the US provided the Soviets, it was the type of resources the US provided. Take food for example, roughly 50% of all fats consumed by the Red Army came from Lend Lease. Almost 20% of their meats came from Lend Lease.

Then there is aviation fuel. Almost 60% of aviation grade fuel used by the Soviets came from Lend Lease.

Then there are locomotives. The Soviets repurposed all their locomotive production plants to build tanks. Lend Lease provided almost 2,000 engines, 11,000 rail cars, and over 50% of all track rails used by the Soviets during the war.

There is commo wire and radios. The Soviets could not produce vacuum tubes during the war. They also could not produce telephone wire. Lend lease supplied the Soviets over 400,000 field telephones, 35,000 advanced radio stations, and roughly 1 million kilometers of telephone wire.

In the early stages of Barbarossa, the Germans captured almost all aluminum and copper mines the Soviets had. Lend lease supplied the Soviets the aluminum and copper needed to keep their factories rolling.

The Soviets had zero access to natural rubber and also lacked the chemical engineering capability to produce synthetic rubber. Not only did the US supply them tires, the US dismantled and shipped an entire tire factory to the Soviets. Without this, the Soviets would have produced exactly zero tiers after 1941.

And that’s not to mention the thousands of Studebaker trucks the US provided, which constituted almost 60% of all wheeled transportation used by the Red Army throughout the war. By 1944, that number had climbed north of 70%.

Between 1942 and 1944, roughly 50% of the total TNT and direct chemical precursors used in munitions manufacturing, ranging from HE tank shells, land mines, and artillery shells, came from lend lease.

While the Soviets could produce basic structural steel, they lacked the capability of mass producing high-grade rolled steel used in tank armor. Up to 80% of the rolled steel the Soviets used make armored vehicles came from Lend Lease.

All that is to say without Lend Lease, the Soviets would not have been able to:

1. Feed its army
2. Communicate with its army
3. Use its Air Force
4. Get supplies the front
5. Move it’s army other than by foot or hoof
6. Supply the factories with raw materials
7. Produce sufficient munitions to fight the war.
8. Produce tanks with actual armor protection.

Add all that up, and even with the victory at Stalingrad in early 1943, the Red Army, and indeed the Soviet Union itself, would not have lasted past the end of the year if not for Lend Lease.