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From: Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com>
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
Subject: Re: How are criminals arrested
Date: 27 Jun 2025 11:45:51 GMT
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cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Tue Jun 24 15:21:19 2025 AMuzi  wrote:
>> On 6/24/2025 2:46 PM, cyclintom wrote:
>>> On Mon Jun 23 16:51:19 2025 Shadow  wrote:
>>>> rOn Mon, 23 Jun 2025 17:17:14 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Sun Jun 22 22:32:14 2025 Roger Merriman  wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The obligations and threats are well beyond just defensive measures, which
>>>>>> is why the US needs such a large military, for that role which is well
>>>>>> beyond just defensive.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> We have two I believe and are relatively large carriers just not US sized
>>>>>> ones!
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Who won the worls wars? Even with the US being dragged into WW II
>>>>> kicking and screaming let's remember that GB, France, Australia and
>>>>> Canada were not winning that war. They could hardly stay even.
>>>> 
>>>> Russia won world war II. If Hitler had not invaded Russia we would all
>>>> be speaking Trump.
>>>> The US was not dragged in "kicking and screaming". They initially
>>>> supported Germany, but when it became clear they'd backed the wrong
>>>> horse, they decided to send their poor in to secure their loans...
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Russia didn;t win shit. Hitler had so little respect for them he put
>>> all of his good armies on the western front. Eisenhower simply
>>> outsmarted him, got a landing and rolled them up. The Battle of the
>>> Bulge was merely caused by the American tanks taking a different rout.
>>> After Paton trned and headed north Germany folded. Germany had too much
>>> self confidence and its generals made too many mistakes because of
>>> that. But after the success Normandy the end was inevitable. US day
>>> time bombing raids and GB night time raids killed the industrial
>>> capacity of Germany and Germany was alone fighting the entire world.
>>> The German staff had about half the intelligence as any common German on the street.
>> 
>> 
>> You have no idea.
>> 
>> I'm amidst this new work, my 4th on the subject, and it's 
>> chock full of newly recovered detail. You might enjoy it:
>> 
>> https://www.alibris.com/Stalingrad-Antony-Beevor/book/6300850?qsort=p&matches!1
>> 
>> Without Zhukov, nothing.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Andrew, Russia surviving Stalingrad turned the war into a two front
> advancement. This was NOT a case of Russia winning the war but a case of
> them being in position to attack Germany on a second front.There was NO
> habitable area left where Stalingrad stood and the war crimes of Germany
> were nothing compared to those of Russia when they turned the front
> around. The Russians were understandably angry but to say that they won
> WW2 is preposterous.
> 

No he’s quite correct Russia absolutely won the European theatre, did they
have help? Absolutely but they moved the factories away from the front
lines in a quite staggering time, so new tanks and so on kept on rolling on
to the front lines.

Ie wasn’t just throwing numbers.

You need to try to read some verifiable evidence not just click bate stuff.

Roger Merriman