Lend-Lease - World War II: Discussion

So the people who made the food that Orville and Wilbour Wright were eating... they are the real inventers of heavier than air flight... right?

a long war demands enormous resources; adequate logistics enables victories.
The Germans run out of supplies as their lines were stretched in 1941, halting their advance; Ks the Mongols' ponies would have nothing to eat if the climate was less rainy during their conquests.

Stalin approached the British and the British told them to talk to the poles. ..What evidence?

it shows they were then more anti-Stalin than anti-Hitler. prior & post WWII history showed that the Ango-Saxons r Russia/USSR enemies; their 4 year alliance with it was a temporary. American & Btitish banks gave credits so the Nazis could build up their mil. & be well armed to defeat the Bolsheviks instead of taking over France & other states in W. Europe. But Hitler refused to dance to their tunes.

They could offer large parts of France to Spain in return for staying neutral and allowing the western allies invade occupied France from their territory.

I doubt they would want to occupy the S. France, as this would create a future war between them. The allies benefited from Spain staying neutral more than they would benefit if she took their side. Bringing Italy was more important to the Brits & US; after the war, Franco kept the Communists out & later Spain joined NATO.

Stalingrad wasn't an epic battle, it was a well laid trap...

it developed into a trap; I doubt the Soviets knew German plans for 1942 in advance.

For reference- the US shipped 400,000 trucks to the USSR and the USSR itself produced only 130,000. So bringing those trucks freed a lot of Soviet manpower that would need to be diverted from other branches of industry in order to produce them themselves.,

D Day in 1942 is impossible. The one in 1944 required ENORMOUS preparations in terms of ground, air and naval buildup that are not completed in 1942. It also required air supremacy which would be impossible if the bomber raids had not diverted significant numbers of Bf-109s and Fw-190s to not be available in France

Torch was against 120k mostly Vichy French troops with poor morale. The WAllies had 100k troops in Torch

In 1944-5 they still faced 1.5m troops on the Western Front.

If even all D-Day troops are available in 1942 then what?
- no Italian campaign so 300k German troops can be recalled back to France
- Wehrmacht is not exhausted on the Eastern Front by additional 2 years of war... another 500-800k troops can be recalled to France. At worst the Fall Blau is stopped
- Luftwaffe is not exhausted on the Eastern Front and against bomber raids... so expect 1000+ fighters and another 1000+ bombers to be rebased to France
- without air supremacy there ASW warfare is difficult... U-Boots are rebased and used against allied ships and likely with much success

More data & opinion here: https://www.rferl.org/a/did-us-lend-lease-aid-tip-the-balance-in-soviet-fight-against-nazi-germany/30599486.html

Noy sure is this has been posted already but I wanted to park it here.

This is a talk by the US Major at the sharp end of the documentation on what the US sent to Russia. He kept a diary! May be not what you have heard or read to date

What battle of the Great Patriotic War did the Red Army soldiers win on Lend-Lease tanks https://russian7.ru/post/kakuyu-bitvu-velikoy-otechestvennoy-kr/

As the saying goes, further comments r not needed here.

Lend lease to the UK form the US was three times larger than to the USSR.

The Reich did not expend 80% of its men and equipment fighting the British. Where did all this lend-lease
go?

Another thing that Andrei's video shows well is that even before the Soviet Union received even a third of the land-lease they had already won the battle of moscow, kursk and stalingrad causing more than 2.5 million casualties in the nazis.

The key about that graph is that it is cumulative. So it rises steeper than the actual supply. The over-hyped lend-lease only became
a thing in 1943. By then the Nazis were in retreat on the eastern front.

Martyanov is right that lend-lease should be appreciated and contributed to the war against Hitler, but the US and other wankers who
use it as a bludgeon to claim that the US really won the war on the eastern front need to be pissed and shat on. They are worse
than scum.