Why nobody talks about the fact Britain was the biggest welfare queen of the WW2?

Why nobody talks about the fact Britain was the biggest welfare queen of the WW2?

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Most people who aren't brainlets are well aware of the Battle of the Atlantic and the key role that the US played in keeping Britain in the war.

Most people are brainlets though.

Im sure france would have got more LL but it surrendered to quickly.

And the kittyhawks were paid for upfront

Yeah I wish the brits would give us more credit. We're supposed to be bros.

Is this pure cash payments or is it the value of military material?

In before the faggot who doesn't know what 'bankrupt' means.

What was the USSR.

Not even close to what the Brits got.

Why do you think people should talk about it?

You do get most of the credit for nearly everything done in the Western front after Pearl Harbor.

Brits borrowed the most
also Murrica also was dependent to the brits for a lot of things such as intelligence,bases,textiles and also newer technology such as proximity fuses,sonar technology etc
its not a one sided exchanged as people narrowly see it nowadays

Wasn't a lot of that LL to Britain then directed onto the Soviets? It's a bit weird to be getting lend-lease aircraft and then sending the Soviets Spitfires and Hurricanes

Very good example of fpbp

Yeah, the better question would be how much exactly did Lend Lease contribute to Soviet victory on the Eastern Front.

>how much exactly did Lend Lease contribute to Soviet victory on the Eastern Front.

It was the only thing keeping the Soviets in the war.

Without Lend-Lease, the Soviets would have been forced to sign a cease fire agreement with the Germans.

>welfare
Do you not understand the meaning of the word 'lend'? The day after the war ended Britain was asked to pay America back for everything that had been lent during the conflict. Britain obviously didn't have that kind of money after six years of war, so were forced to send a delegation to Washington to beg for a loan from America so they could pay off their debts to America. Final payment on this loan was made in 2006.

Britain also paid in other ways, like giving America the right to build military bases in Britain's overseas territories, and handing over classified and highly valuable technologies like radar, the jet engine, a cavity magnetron (which would make microwave ovens possible). And of course Britain's nuclear research, which was subsumed into the Manhatten project.

Considering the US and UK were fighting the same enemy, you could almost argue that the US turned a profit off its relationship with Britain during WW2. If the US equipped a British division to fight the Nazis the UK had to pay for the equipment - but if that British division wasn't there then the US would have had to fill the gap with one of their own. From America's perspective, Lend-Lease was a very cost-effective way of fighting WW2.

Needless to say, the Soviets didn't repay jack shit.

It's not welfare if it's pay it back, for a significant portion of the war the British were the only real opposition the third Reich faced. Brits gave (actually gave) generously to the soviets after Barbarossa, the UK is used here to mean the entire British empire (see pic). Brits gave the US >$100 Billion in material supportduring the same period, not to mention the transfer of UK military technology to the US which also made lend-lease one of the greatest investments the USA ever made. If you are pro-American, for the advances in radar, jet propulsion and computing alone it is insane to argue against aiding the British Empire. Any rising power would pay a lot more than at most - the lion's share of about 17% of Military expenditure for such stark technological advantages.

>In his book Scientists Against Time (1946) [won the Pulitzer Prize for History], the American James Phinney Baxter III describes Sir Henry Tizard's shipment of resonant cavity magnetrons as "the most valuable cargo ever brought to our shores."

The only reason this should surprise anybody is that the UK's (and tbf the USA's) contributions to the war are wildly underrated by liberal brainlets who like to think antifa punched the nazis into extinction.

We do, don't believe the memes, even Christopher Hitchens in his commie naval brat days conceded you were biggest of the big 3. Often, statements to the contrary are reactions to US assertions that they alone won the war.
Military materials, Military-industrial complex was thrilled.

>Brits told Americans how to do jets and radar more efficiently
>Didn't tell Americans about the aluminium strip trick that fucked up German radar detection
Pretty dick move really

According to wikipedia they did, the Americans just didn't use it
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaff_(countermeasure)

>Once the British had passed the idea to the US via the Tizard Mission, Fred Whipple developed a system (according to Harvard Gazette Archives) for dispensing strips for the USAAF, but it is not known if this was ever used.

In the later stages of the war they were leaving the bombers pretty and chrome just to try and attract as much attention as possible. They wanted the Luftwaffe to come up and fight, they were getting slaughtered by the escorting Mustangs. Night bombers were pretty defenseless despite all the guns.

I know this is a joke, but it's still retarded

According to Stalin, Khrushchev and Zhukov, the Soviets would have definitely lost the war without LL.