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> science being the entire reason the US were able to corner the fascists in WW2

Not to my knowledge

Economic heft had a lot to do with it as did the weight of numbers

I love science, BTW. But it is not the source of all knowledge.



We took their scientists, broke their codes, and built a bomb that took out two cities. That requires science in my book.


For the Japanese. The war was shortened. But by the time of the bomb they were doomed. They could not replace their losses like the Americans could

The Germans were beaten mostly by the Soviets. They (the Germans) were overwhelmed. And they too could not replace their losses like the Soviets could. Especially humans


And none of their forces would have been so drastically depleted without science.




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