the facts on the ground are that without US participation in the war the UK and the Soviets in the end could have outlasted the Germans and Italians and Japanese but only if their populations were ready to basically face a very very very long war - and while that was possible in the Soviet Union it was not in the UK
dictatorships can harness people in ways that democracy's cannot - look at what happened to Churchill when he said we are done in Europe now we have to finish the job in Asia as an example
if it had become clear that Hitler was ready to leave the UK alone and sue for a seperate peace with the UK and you had the right political climate then its just Hitler versus the Soviets - and Germany's industrial base with no bombing to slow it down, especially of its oil production and the Soviets would not have been able to win - survive yes, win no
especially imagine how much difference it would have made in 1942 after Tobruk without the US ready and willing to pour in planes and tanks to save their position in Africa - something Roosevelt could not have done if he wasnt commander in chief of a nation at war
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