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Originally Posted by RN7
The British Commonwealth could not have beaten Germany on its own.
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Indeed, that is correct ...
but not in the way I strongly suspect you mean it.
What I
suspect you mean is that
'The British Commonwealth could not have beaten Germany without active US intervention.'
The US was already selling arms to the UK, even before Lend Lease, and was rearming herself because she saw the Axis as a threat. Even if they do not enter the war one can reasonably assume that they will continue to sell to the UK out of simple self interest ... making money, stripping the Commonwealth of as much as they can.
As for the rest, well, as I have noted, you need to compare a non-US WW2 with the Napoleonic and 7YW ... where Britain built a series of coalitions that eventually won those wars. And that is what would likely have happened again.
So, yes, the Commonwealth would have had to build a coalition to win ... but not necessarily with the US ...
Phil