Sarah Paine

Once the Germans maximize their territorial conquest, they've reduced Russian population, because they've conquered all these areas, to less than that of the United States.

Yet, nevertheless, the Russians mobilize twice the army that the United States does.

And if you look at the mathematics of munitions, the Russians on their lonesome produced more munitions than did Germany.

Once the United States gets in the war, we produce a hundred billion and whatever dollars it wasn't on munitions.

And in that period, the Germans produced less than 40 billion.

So bad news for Germany on all of these numbers.

The trick is getting the munitions to the men, whereas in World War I, that wasn't feasible.

But now these railway lines have been completed, and it's pouring in.

And the lend-lease aid, you look at it, wow, Britain's getting a lot, Russia quite a bit, but less, China nothing.

What's going on there?

You can only get aid in if there are ports and railways.

Japan blockaded China.

Proof of concept.

It can be done.

The Japanese did it.

And you could not get stuff in.

So what the United States was trying to do, the British thought we were insane.

They're probably correct.

We were flying things in over the Himalayas called the hump.

Great.