4 ms·
>When Europe needs military assistance, who shows up? The last time Europe actually needed military assistance was WWII, and China arguably played a larger rol
by RobotToaster 4y ago
>When Europe needs military assistance, who shows up?
The last time Europe actually needed military assistance was WWII, and China arguably played a larger role in that than the USA.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- arrosenberg 4y agoReally? How many bullets did China produce for the European theater? Artillery shells? Warships and planes? How much food and oil did they ship? More Chinese people died. By any other measure the United States won the war via the Lend/Lease program.
- no_wizard 4y agoMao's entire army was outfitted with American weapons & vehicles in WWII which they then used to run Chiang Kai-shek out of the country to what is now Taiwan. We were initially going to arm Chiang Kai-shek but he was refusing to use the arms against the Japanese, believing he would need them for the civil war that would follow. Interesting snippet of history.
- RobotToaster 4y agoAmerica then sent us the bill, the UK didn't finish paying it until this century.
- 123pie123 4y agoand ?
- bigbillheck 4y agoHow about this for a counterfactual: if not for China, the Japanese would have seized India, and from there raise hell in Iran (oil supplies!) and put serious pressure on the Suez Canal.
- esafak 4y agoChina was involved in the Pacific theater, not Europe. What are you referring to?
- afterburner 4y agoChina had nothing to do with the European theatre. US military and economic assistance was critical to pushing back Nazi Germany forces into unconditional surrender. Meanwhile China had no part in it whatsoever. Critical versus zero, seems pretty clear, how did you make this massive mistake? Even in the Pacific theatre, the US Navy was absolutely critical to collapsing Japan's empire.