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I really think you know enough for you to know this is wrong. DuPont alone took $55 million for gunpowder sales (unless we're now claiming explosives are a raw material). A Financial History of the United States, at 75.
Or here's America's Great War, at 30:
"Morgan soon became the world's largest purchaser of goods, about 60 percent of which were arms and munitions and the remainder of which were foodstuffs... By the Battle of the Somme in 1916, US firms were supplying Britain with three quarters of its light artillery shells.".
Honestly, given your previous claims, this should be pretty obvious. You've gone on at length about how essential American credit was to Britain. But why would British credit matter? Because it was buying war material and resources from America.
Why would anyone give up just because Russia's folded? The Americans are coming, and a stable Kerensky is waiting in the wings to rejoin the war if things look bad for Germany.
Okay the US produced shells and explosives. 75% of the tanks, airplanes, artillery, and MGs were French made:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Expeditionary_Forces
The AEF used French and British equipment. Particularly appreciated were the French canon de 75 modèle 1897, the canon de 155 C modèle 1917 Schneider and the canon de 155mm GPF. American aviation units received the SPAD XIII and Nieuport 28 fighters and the US tank corps used the French Renault FT light tanks.