> The US manufacturing capacity was a huge factor in winning WW2. Not wrong, but the British were outproducing the Germans in many things (e.g., aircraft[1]) e

> The US manufacturing capacity was a huge factor in winning WW2. Not wrong, but the British were outproducing the Germans in many things (e.g., aircraft[1]) even before lend-lease was a thing. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_aircraft_production https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_aircraft_producti... The Nazis were really bad at running the economy: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wages_of_Destruction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wages_of_Destruction