cold war / new cold war mentality breaks westerners' brains so immaculately that the concept of "alliance" is just completely unimaginable to them. the 'Allies' won ww2 all the large and small allied countries contributed meaningfully (besides like the 1945-entrants, lol). everyone trying to make like one country did it alone has to purposefully ignore huge parts of the war for cold-war narrative points
cold war / new cold war mentality breaks westerners' brains so immaculately that the concept of "alliance" is just completely unimaginable to them. the 'Allies' won ww2 all the large and small allied countries contributed meaningfully (besides like the 1945-entrants, lol). everyone trying to make like one country did it alone has to purposefully ignore huge parts of the war for cold-war narrative points