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In article , Rod Speed
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In article , Andrew
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On 23/05/2021 18:15, Cursitor Doom wrote:
On Sun, 23 May 2021 08:24:43 -0700 (PDT), fred
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John le Carre quote

To hear Brexiters claiming that Britain won the war single-handedly
is, he says, "emetic.. "The wonderful rightwing military historian
Max Hastings points out that we were bad fighters, that we were
extremely badly organised, and our contribution in terms of blood
and wealth and material was - I can't say trivial, but tremendously
small by comparison to the sacrifices of the other major lost,
what, 30 million men? And in treasure, heaven knows what. We didn't
win the war in that sense. We were on the winning side by the end,
but we were really quite minor players..
I beg to differ. If Britain had done **** all against Hitler, the
world would be a very different place today.


Do you mean we would be driving around in German or Japanese cars ?.

We wouldn't be driving around.

Bull**** if Britain had agreed to a truce after Dunkirk as Hitler
wanted. Britain would have ended up like Spain and Portugal,
doing fine. France did fine after it surrendered.

and the Japs would have taken Australia

Nope, they never had anything even remotely like the capacity to do
that and never intended to do that and post Pearl Harbour the yanks
wouldn't have let that happen even if they had wanted to do that.

They didn't even have the capacity to take PNG.
We stopped them from doing that at Kokoda,
and you poms were completely irrelevant to that.