Comment by hollerith

I wonder whether you are wrong for the same reason that the people are wrong who say the main chessboard in WWII was the area between the Rhine and the Volga. It ignores the high toll imposed on Germany by its being extremely restricted for most of the war in its ability to ship anything (and to receive shipments initiated by non-German entrepreneurs) while the allies were much less restricted so that for example the Soviets fighting on this "main chessboard" had supplies flowing in from Murmansk, Vladivostok and the Persian Corridor through Iran. IIRC the value of these supplies in 2026 dollars is about a trillion dollars (largely paid for by London and Washington).