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And your point is?You're all ********
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Needs to be pointed out FDR and Churchill were 7 cousins once removed. So very, very distantly related and doubt that would have any effect on FDR bringing USA into the war as opposed to a certain Pearl Harbour incident.
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As I said, before Pearl Harbour the US Navy was openly engaging German Uboats. Also the US was providing a great deal of material to the British war effort breaking its neutrality. Churchill's personal relationship with FDR was the major factor in this as has been proven by both men's diaries so doubt all you want but FDR was taking a massive gamble supplying the British Empire with war materials. It was something that was deeply unpopular in the US who had no axe to grind with Nazi Germany.
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The fact they were actually related did help with the friendshipdon’t doubt any of that but just wanted to clarify your point about being cousins and their personal relationship as a result.
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The fact they were actually related did help with the friendship
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I don’t doubt any of that but just wanted to clarify your point about being cousins and their personal relationship as a result.
We just need to look at George V and his family connection with his cousin the Tsar of Russia how he fecked him and the Romanovs over by not bringing them over to the UK before they got shot by the Bolsheviks. All down to protecting the British Royal family’s position and not being tainted by Bolshevism, spreading through Russia at the time, and bringing it to the UK.
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ah it wasn't the taint of Bolshevism it was the threat that communists in the UK (and Ireland) wouldn't take kindly to the UK saving Tsar Nick who was a totalitarian ruler (although he was a bit naive and weak and was really only a figurehead for the ruling classes) and there was a real fear in Parliament of revolution here in the UK.
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Had Churchill not been PM after the fall of France, a Government headed by Halifax would have accepted Hitlers peace terms.
no Battle of Britain which wiped off a 3rd of the Luftwaffe's strength (which it failed to replace before Barbarossa) and no campaign in the Western Desert but we will come onto that later.
- With the British empire still in the war at the end of 1940 Nazi Germany decided to starve them into submission and started the longest campaign of the war: The battle of the Atlantic. Now why was this important and why was Churchill key to it? Well because his cousin happened to be the President of the United States and it was this campaign and Churchill's relationship with Roosevelt that brought America into the war with Germany from a material perspective even before Pearl Harbour which would be possibly the deciding factor of the whole war. Before Pearl Harbour the US navy was engaging the Kriegsmarine in the Atlantic, was supplying the Royal Navy with destroyers and providing air cover from Greenland to the Eastern sea board. None of this would have been possible had it not been Churchill's ability to persuade the President of a very isolationist country to effectively go to war. Yes some Americans like Henry Ford also supplied the Nazi's but Churchill was key to bringing the industrial might of the US into the war, something that would save the Soviet Union from defeat in the coming years.
- June 1941 and Nazi Germany invade the Soviet Union and start the biggest, most destructive war in the history of mankind. Now what is often forgotten is the state of the Wehrmacht prior to this invasion. It was short of aircraft (thanks to the Battle of Britain) and its Panzer arm was short of fuel and its tanks were worn out having fought a brief but logistically tough campaign in the Balkans and Greece. This was not a campaign that the Nazi's had wanted to fight but because the pro Nazi government in Yugoslavia had been toppled by a British intelligence led coup (who would not be involved had Britain not still been in the war) and given the strategic importance of the this area Hitler had to intervene also Italy had bungled its invasion of Greece and Commonwealth troops were sent their to assist the Greeks so the Germans had to intervene again. Now both campaigns were over quickly and the performance of the Commonwealth troops were not the best but it delayed the start of Barbarossa and ate up fuel and spare parts that were to make all the difference in the coming months.
- In the first 2 months of Barbarossa the Germans inflict a number of cataclysmic defeats on the Red Army. Now Stalin is as much to blame for that as the Germans but even with these losses the Germans are still no closer to defeating the Soviet Union than they were in June. Yes they had captured millions of prisoners and lots of land but the Red Army was still able to field formations so the goal of Barbarossa: the destruction of the red army was still a long way off. Now for all the German success they are starting to have some real problems: They are running out of infantry, casualties are close to 200k which represents 30% of the total infantry numbers ( 3 million Germans invaded the USSR but most of these soldiers would be in support units) this was down to the Red Army so no credit to Mr Churchill there, they had also run out of fuel which you can credit to the earlier campaigns in 1941. Many think that the capture of Moscow would have ended the war in 1941 (Im not one of those people but..) the Germans were not able to do this because by December 1941 the Wehrmacht was in such a poor state in terms of men and materials that the Soviet counter attack outside Moscow almost defeated the Germans in 1941. Now they would have been in a much better position had they had more men (thanks to the red army) more fuel and vehicles (thanks to all the 1941 campaigns not just Babarossa), more aircraft (thanks to the RAF) and the very capable Panzer Division currently tied up in the Western desert.
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Most of the US supplied equipment was unsuitable for use in the Russian climate. About the most valuable thing supplied were jeeps/trucks IIRC.
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It’s ironic that countries like Germany and Japan have progressed where they are today despite their horrific history instead of being stuck in the past like Britain has IMO.
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