Comment Re:Surrender! (Score 1) 128
The British survived the German air attacks and naval siege primarily because of US industrial and food assistance before the US officially even joined the war. The US also provided fuel, jeeps, trucks, weapons, and food to Russia using both US and British ships. This gave Stalin the time and resources he needed to locate all the military officers and scientists he condemned to the gulags prior to the war. Factories in the US were building Spitfires and other military equipment while practically ignoring the US Neutrality Act. The US Lend lease program also relied on President Eisenhower willfully ignoring the laws that had been passed proscribing US involvement when he handed over US naval vessels to Britain that had been sitting idle at the time. The President also extended US territorial waters by fiat to help protect British shipping which was being sent to the bottom of the ocean in record numbers. The French resistance displayed incredible bravery and commitment to defending their country but their contribution would not have won them their country back without outside assistance. Their effectiveness was waning as D-Day approached because the Germans had been improving their counter espionage network to hunt down any suspected resistance fighters. Of course none of this matters in the least today. The old alliances are weak and unreliable at best. The US has no reliable or even capable allies that would ever come to it's defense if a situation such as WW2 were to re-manifest today.