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Post by NetherFreek on Aug 29, 2016 19:06:36 GMT
Well,
Imagine youre a country in war.
You have naval supremacy;
You have air supremacy;
You live on an island.
Would you surrender knowing the enemy cant possibly take you?
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Post by NetherFreek on Aug 29, 2016 19:08:30 GMT
Im not stating that the americans didnt do anything in the war. But stating that brittain would just surrender if they didnt have the us as a backup feels a bit wrong to me..
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Post by Ivan Kolev on Aug 29, 2016 19:24:33 GMT
Well, Imagine youre a country in war. You have naval supremacy; You have air supremacy; You live on an island. Would you surrender knowing the enemy cant possibly take you? Depends on how long I've stayed involved. For one year, no. Five, no. Ten, maybe. It would be a matter of how long the Germans would be willing to wait to invade the Soviets and to just wait until the British just physically didn't have the stomach to continue on. Eventually, the population would not have remained in favor of war if it continued on without any victories for a large amount of time. Obviously, the Nazis invaded the USSR in 1941, and even if they hadn't, the Soviets would have more than likely launched an invasion of their own eventually. So by adding all these 'Ifs', it makes the question more confusing than it really should be. |
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Post by Conrad von Hotzendorf on Aug 30, 2016 0:15:14 GMT
Calm down Conrad, enjoy this "The Great War" T-Shirt  I've seen it It displeases me |
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Post by Franz von Hipper on Aug 30, 2016 0:18:11 GMT
Calm down Conrad, enjoy this "The Great War" T-Shirt I've seen it It displeases me So All and Mighty Conrad, how did you lose ww1? |
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Post by Quintus Fabius on Aug 30, 2016 0:43:22 GMT
Calm down Conrad, enjoy this "The Great War" T-Shirt I've seen it It displeases me Don't worry, my jokes abour surrender are Danish. |
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Post by Desophaeus on Aug 30, 2016 0:45:51 GMT
Well, Imagine youre a country in war. You have naval supremacy; You have air supremacy; You live on an island. Would you surrender knowing the enemy cant possibly take you? And your most beloved industry: the accumulation of wealth in trading and lending, your precious hoard of gold disappear one coin by one coin, slowly losing the beauty, the glimmer grows dull, the weight grow lighter month by month... The Brits love their global markets far too much to not stay away from it for too long. I'm saying it definitely applies to the bankers in London. But yeah... Germany wasn't self-sufficient either and they didn't have a massive economic powerhouse staying on the sidelines funding their war. Kinda sticky situation for both. I believe Thomas Jefferson said something like (paraphrase) "If out of fear to be bitten, you grab a wolf by the ears quickly, you've gotten yourself in a terrible situation. You don't dare to let go, but you don't dare to go on long in handhold either." |
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