MajorTom
Since: Dec, 2009
#27: Aug 3rd 2011 at 5:43:20 AM
^ We didn't "need" the Soviets for anything in World War Two. (They needed us a lot more than we did them.) It was an alliance of convenience. (Which promptly fell apart by the time Berlin fell.)
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#28: Aug 3rd 2011 at 7:10:29 AM
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This is true, but it is, in fact, the best analogy I can think of, relative to recent times. Not perfect, by any stretch, but it would do.
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#29: Aug 3rd 2011 at 10:23:41 AM
Nope, nothing tying up 80% of the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front, no sirree.
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Anyone remember how, in WW 2, The UK, America, et al, fought alongside the Soviets to defeat the greater of many evils?
Same idea, more or less.
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