Re:UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted
by __alexs on Monday January 20, 2025 @03:32AM
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A truck without a driver has no value in a war. Lend lease was important but the ambition and drive to defeat Germany required huge sacrifices on all sides that are impossible without shared cultural ideals.
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Re:UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted
by bell-cot on Monday January 20, 2025 @07:23AM
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Those "shared cultural ideals" amounted to very little beyond "conquer the Nazis, before they conquer us" - as late-war and post-war relations between the USSR and the Western Allies showed. Or, as pre-'39 Western policies showed. The '30's saw the Nazis as an evil...but a useful and "not too" evil, that would (mostly, in effect) protect the West from the greater evil of Soviet Communism.