Back Towards The Locus

A few thoughts regarding Tim Montgomerie’s new A World Without The American Soldier video. In it – after a brief monologue from a soldier sitting in what appears to be Shropshire while declaring “the heat is unbearable” – a narrator ponders a parallel twentieth century in which the American military do not exist. In this world, the narrator tells us, Hitler “might have completed his annihilation of European Jews“.

Now, I’m not particularly knowledgeable on the subject of military history – I used to be, but got tired of it as a hobby before secondary school – but there seems to be an excellent case for arguing that very similar results would have arisen had Soviet soldiers not fought in the war. Operation Barbarossa, after all, tied up 4.5 million German soldiers, as well as aircraft, vehicles and weaponry. Advances in the BSSR and Poland also caused German losses, and forced them to expend massive resources in protecting the Eastern Front. This left the French coastline weakened, with such rudimentary defences that the Normandy invasions were entirely successful.

It would, of course, be absurd to justify the staggering atrocities of Soviet Russia by citing the positive results of Soviet involvement in World War 2. The two are distinct, and exactly the same rationale applies when judging current American campaigns.

There’s a post and thread about the wider organisation at Liberal Conspiracy.