MrStargazer @ MrStargazer @lemm.ee Posts 0Comments 2Joined 2 days ago
On the European theatre Britain was basically alone for a while -- there were of course Partisan movements in Europe but, to be frank, it's unlikely they would have stopped the Nazi war machine. Yes, Britain could have collected soldiers from Canada, Australia and India to fight the Nazis (and they did exactly this during D-Day and in North Africa). But there was a period, after Dunkirk and during the Battle of Britain, where reinforcements were quite far and Britain was pretty alone. The Germans also sunk a lot of the vessels headed for Britain with their U-boats, and it took a while for anti-submarine warfare to catch up.
Also, a correction, India lost over 2 million people, but most of the deaths were civilians, not soldiers; they lost about 87,000 troops: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India_in_World_War_II
While times seem bad, and they are worse than they used to be, especially with the election of Donald Trump, imagine what it was like during WW2. Nazi Germany invaded France, Czechoslovakia, and half of Poland (with the Soviet Union the other half); Britain stood alone. Spain was under fascist dictatorship. Now Russia barely controls 1/5 of Ukraine, and has suffered many thousands of losses in tanks and armoured vehicles. Modern Russia is now weaker than the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany was (for their time period).