WWII Deaths

[Amnorix]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

I don't understand the question - what if two nations that despised each other suddenly decided to ally? Wonder why you asked that. Assuming they didn't hate each other, the obvious answer is that they'd rule the world and with ease. German technology and creativity + Russian mapower and natural resources would dominate.



Put it this way: in London just after the war's conclusion, Scotland Yard tried to figure out how the West should proceed with the Soviet Union (who was now in Germany and hence on their doorstep). A memo to Churchill concluded that it would take the entire armies of England, the USA, France, and even a re-constituted German army to repel any USSR invasion.

Really? The London Police Department (fancy name, but that's what it is) concluded that?! Wow, must be definitive then!

It's bullshit. First, we had friggin nukes, and the Soviets still didn't have any long-range bombers worth the name. Second, IF we had had time to redeploy (and fully mobilize) then the US/UK (plus commonwealths) would have far more population and far more troops, potentially, then the Soviet Union.

I'm not saying by any means that it's some kind of cakewalk. FAR from it, but

Originally Posted by Putin's Bitch, again with the Russia-love

the obvious answer is that they'd rule the world and with ease

IS COMPLETELY WRONG.


Edit to note that Russia would have zero capacity to launch any kind of amphibious assault against England, much less cross the ocean and attack the U.S. Their "navy" at the end of WWII was a complete joke. Like basically non-existent.