Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "How Nazi Germany could have Defeated Russia... (HITLER COULD HAVE WON!!)" video.

  1. Okay, there are some valid points made here but there are major flaws in most of them that just could never be overcome. The first is the notion that Germany was going to be able to avoid a war with the U.S. In order for that to happen, Hitler would have had to stopped fighting everyone and pulled his armies back to Germany. FDR was hellbent on fighting the Germans, by hook or crook, and if the Japanese hadn't attacked some other incident in the Atlantic would have triggered it. The bit about treating the Eastern Europeans better, especially the Ukrainians, holds the most water except the Nazi's couldn't help themselves. The idea that the people in the East were subhuman had been drilled into the heads of the German soldiers since they were kids in the early and mid 1930s. For Hitler to change his tune at that point, after already blowing people's minds with his Soviet non-aggression pact would have been an ideological bridge too far. There was no way the Führer was going to hold back. He called for a war of annihilation right off the bat and he was going to have it. That land was meant for German's in his eyes and that meant depopulating the area. Otherwise, what's the point of the war? It would be like buying a car in the Amazon Rain Forrest. You could say you have a car but without any roads what's the point of owning it. Finally, Japan was just as racially driven as Germany. It wasn't in their cultural DNA to get too cozy with any European power. They had been in the business of cleaning out imperial powers and taking over as the new landlords for quite some time. Everyone who wasn't Japanese was inferior, including other Oriental races. No way they were going to fight along side white folks, not at that point in their history. Like the German soldiers had been taught to hate Eastern Europeans, Japanese soldiers had been taught to hate all imperial powers. That BS line they were selling the people in the lands they conquered; "We are clearing out the Europeans and Americans and creating a prosperity sphere in the East for everyone to share in" was jut that, BS. Of course nobody outside of Japan bought that nonsense but it didn't stop them from selling it. If they were suddenly fighting alongside whitey, a whole bunch of Japanese soldiers and civilians would have said WTF. I'm not a big fan of counterfactuals so maybe that colors my views, but some things just can't be overcome. Anyway, it was an interesting video and at least the arguments were well developed for the most part.
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  2. The claim that the Soviets didn't receive U.S. support is false. Money and material through the Lend-Lease program began in November of 1941, before the attack on Pearl Harbor had occurred. Prior to that the U.S. floated a 50-million dollar loan to the USSR, more than one-billion in today's money. Also, capturing Moscow wouldn't have changed Soviet resolve. Plans were in place for the government to move and most of the major factories had already beat feat and headed beyond the Urals at that point. Hitler would have gotten as much from capturing Moscow as Napoleon had, squadoosh. The Russians would have torched anything of value and to borrow from Dr. Seuss, they would have taken the last can of who-hash with them on the way out the door. Taking Moscow wouldn't have changed the reality that there were scores of battle-tested troops in the East led by generals who knew what they were doing and row after row of T-34 tanks waiting on the other side. And the morale value of taking capitals is old-style thinking and highly overrated. You'd think the fall of Philadelphia in 1777 and the burning of the White House in 1814 would have taught the world that much. Churchill engaged in the same type of thinking on the Allied side but luckily Ike was more concerned with defeating German forces than playing the old imperial game of capture the flag in 1945. But I digress. I'm willing to listen to more but I'm at the 15-minute mark and so far I'm not convinced. We'll see. I'm not much on counterfactuals but I try to keep an open mind.
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