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There is no doubt the lend-lease of military equipment to the British helped them to stay at liberty until the USA got involved in the war. But to be fair to history, the bigger help to the British staying in until we got there was the Germans monumental error in discontinuing the air raids on the RAF, which was scraping the barrel for aircraft because the Luftwaffe was hammering their airfields and factories. Once the Germans switched to bombing British cities it gave the RAF much needed time to build up stock and strike back hard at the German bombers, which made Hitler change his mind about invading. But for that, the Germans would probably have invaded Britain in 1941, before they invaded Russia. Another mistake by the Germans was not destroying ther remains of the British army at Dunkirk. They really should have either bombed fuck out of them or captured them. Letting 300,000 experienced military escape home only to have to face them in North Africa later on was a mistake.

If the Germans had invaded Britain, they also would have steamrolled into Ireland with no resistance as Ireland was as backward as fuck back then, and closed off the waters right from the Norwegian Sea down to the English Channel and even further down to the Gibraltar Straits once Franco had decided to walk into Gibraltar. The British in North Africa would have most likely surrender as part of the deal they made with the Germans, thus also closing off the Mediterranean Sea.

That done, there would be no hope of the USA invading Europes soft underbelly, or anywhere in France for lack of bases in Britain or North Afrca. Which would have left Russia really fucked even if Hitler had postponed his invasion until 1942, which is what he really should have done in order to build up more reserves of tanks and planes, and winter coats so his men didn't have to die in vain in the fucking snow outide Moscow.

Bottom line is that nobody on their own was going to beat the Germans. It was team effort or nothing. Saying anything less is a disservice to all those who served and gave their lives to the war effort.