PC: US gives Cold Shoulder to Europe b/f Cold War

I was not stating Emotion can substitute for material goods, weapons, supplies etc. My point was... The UK may decide to resort to a negotiated peace with Nazi Germany, The USSR would not. I agree that Lend Lease allowed the OTL USSR to do what it did at a rapid pace. I do not however believe that the USSR were incapable of taking the fight to Germany without LL being provided. Bolstering defences & reconstruction would be needed 1st but they would get to Berlin eventually, just not as fast.
 
I was not stating Emotion can substitute for material goods, weapons, supplies etc. My point was... The UK may decide to resort to a negotiated peace with Nazi Germany, The USSR would not. I agree that Lend Lease allowed the OTL USSR to do what it did at a rapid pace. I do not however believe that the USSR were incapable of taking the fight to Germany without LL being provided. Bolstering defences & reconstruction would be needed 1st but they would get to Berlin eventually, just not as fast.

The UK on its own won't be fighting to the end in this timeline. They will fight to protect their Empire and see a status quo between Nazism and Stalinism in Europe as they can't liberate mainland Europe and they are likely to be near bankruptcy by 1943 anyway.

The Soviets could try to fight on to take Berlin, but they would bleed themselves dry. The Eastern Front would come to look like the trenches of WW1 only on a much wider scale.
 
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