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The lend lease program was a much bigger contribution than you're making it out to be. In particular, the contribution the US made to the Soviets was both immensely valuable and poorly repaid.

Overall, a little under $11 billion in goods (in old timey dollars) was shipped to the USSR and only three quarters of $1 billion were ever repaid. These supplies were around 4%-7% of the USSR's total production during the war.

There were many crucial industrial and logistical supplies sent, such as locomotives, trucks, etc. I think one of the most important single supplies (or at least a huge unsung hero of the war) was shoes and leather, of which over 5 million boots and something like 100k tons of additional leather were delivered to the USSR. Would the Soviet economy have been able to support their military logistics needs without these supplies? Would Soviet soldiers have gone without boots in the brutal Russian winter? Presumably these supplies were chosen for the program because the Soviets were having a hard time producing enough of them domestically, so it's hard to tell if they could have produced them or if they would have had to basically do without. They definitely would have had to re-purpose their economy to fill these needs (ex. making trucks and locomotives instead of tanks).

It's hard to tell for sure, but I think it's very likely to have been an important factor, especially since some of the biggest battles like Stalingrad and Kursk were fairly close contests and were late enough in the war for the supplies and resultant economic investment to have mattered. Without the lend lease program, the Soviets may have been something like 5%-20% weaker (my speculation, but 5% is very conservative) at that point in the war, so it's quite possible that the Germans could have prevailed strategically even if they didn't really stand a chance in our timeline, especially if the economic investment (producing more domestically thanks to the early capital investment) and logistic (getting produced supplies to the troops) boosts from the program's supplies were high.

From a US perspective, this was definitely worth it despite the lack of repayment, especially if the USSR would have collapsed without assistance. These supplies likely saved many US and Anglo lives in the long run.

Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://www.rbth.com/business/...
http://www.jrbooksonline.com/f... (contains the amounts and value of stuff sent; while not the original source, I know it was pulled from a US government report after the war, which I had found earlier)

You left our the Henry Ford was also a renowned writer.

Yes, good goyim, why don't you join AIPAC, the best PAC?

We run the United States and their beloved media industry and have planted and bought off politicians throughout the world. There's plenty of monies in it for you who serve the Jew.

-- Schlomo Goldstein

p.s., a Christmas carol for you all, beloved friends:

On Christmas eve, the FBI got word that Santa was to fly,

That he was going to crash his sleigh into a toy store and people were gonna die,

But the CIA made NORAD go somewhere else because their intelligence was lies.

Santa crashed into the toy store, that airborne bomb he flew,

The toy store fell to the ground, It's buildings one and two,

But a third, unrelated building also fell miles askew,

And its insurance money was paid out to its owner, a Jew.

Actually, Jews account for about 30% of Nobel prizes. Over-represented, yes, but they hardly have a monopoly.

And of course they're discriminated against, for being the treacherous, disruptive assholes they have a well-earned reputation for being. See Dr. Kevin MacDonald's Culture Of Critique for details.

More bullshit from the JEWS...

Yep.

"Courts are increasingly mandating cumulative voting when they deem it necessary to provide fair representation."

Oddly enough, it'll be a cold day in hell before they deem it necessary to mandate any such thing in Israel.

Sociopathy does not mean you don't know right from wrong. It means you have a diminished sense of empathy and remorse, and you look at people as objects. Sociopaths know right from wrong, which is why they try to hide what they are. They just don't care.

That goes double for people like Zuckerburg.

Here's some additional information.

He's not wrong.

But, fortunately, there are ways of dealing with that.

Don't try hide behind the dictionary, the intention of calling people "deniers" is to try tar them with the same brush as holocost deniers. I'm well aware of what your trying to do with that turn of phrase. "denier" isn't a term you use when someone disagree's with you in the scientific community, it's a term religous zealots use.

Well, what did you expect from a Jew?

Now that I am re-reading your post more carefully, the above comments strike me as being code words for accusing some group of people of running some sort of plot. Why don't you be more clear? Who, precisely, is behind this pernicious attack on the fabric of our society? Please provide specific answers, and justify why your answers would not be more simply explained by Adam Smith's economic theory of markets.

The parent poster is referring to Jews. It has nothing to do with Smith or Wealth of Nations. We can look at his writings about the usage of trade teriffs to protect domestic industry to see that protecting a local way of life is paramount to any economic order. Further, as fiat currency and central banking did not exist in Smith's time, nor did he write about it, we cannot look to him for answers on the Jewish Question regarding international finance.

Further, Smith does not write about Media, advertising, or professional manipulation. Smith makes the assumption demand will be reasonable, and it never occurs to him people can be manipulated to demand certain goods. Jews control every major media organization. For evidence, find the last time a Pro-palestinian ideologue was ever presented on American TV. Jewish Media combined with Jewish money lending has created our society as we have it today.

For a rather dated exploration of this issue, Henry Ford's work The International Jew is a great start. The Jewish Question is hard for most to address, because they do not understand the power of racial solidarity. But, in time, you will understand.

Fascism has nothing to do with cultural preservation. It is about the imposition of an autocratic government and a uniform, often synthetic, cultural ideal on a society by force.

A cultural ideal has always been instituted by force. Why do you think there is such uniformity outside of the Western World and in the past of Europe and America.

I do not know what sources you have gained your knowledge about Fascism, but the only country where cultural ideals were NOT a major point of the movement was Great Britain with Oswald Mosley. Simply reading Mein Kampf will illuminate the point. Italian Fascism was almost entirely focused on the cultural aspect. Mussolini spent much more time building monuments than improving his army. Franco also succeeded brilliantly. Spain is perhaps the only European nation with an old world culture.

And it has nothing to do with wisdom. If fascist regimes were led by the wise, how do you explain Hitler's decision to attack Russia? Was there wisdom in his crackpot theories of genetic superiority?

Whether or not they were wise is irrelevant. That was the goal. The entire Schutzstaffel organization in Germany was intended to be like the Ephors in Sparta. The best and brightest would choose the next leader. This was the system advocated by Plato.

Hitler faced a mounting problem with Russia. Since the Polish Campaign and the Russian invasion of Finland, it became clear the Russians intended to bring revolution to Europe. Operation Barbossa was a preemptive strike by Germany against Russia. There is much evidence that Russia was in fact planning an invasion, and their numbers were far superior to the Germans. This is why the Waffen-SS had to draw so many members from accross Europe and as far away as India and Tibet. Certainly, the simple fact Germany was able to fight the whole world for six years indicates there was some element of wisdom in their leadership. A quick study of Germany military history in WWII would teach you pretty much everything about modern warfare was pioneered there. A Tiger tank has the same configuration as a modern tank (sloped armor, low profile). It was the Germans who created the modern submarine design. They were the first to use Jets and guided missles. the Waffen-SS was the first battle group to use mixed armored/infantry groups