> [Churchill] may think the outcome will be the annihilation of Germany, but it will [be] the destruction of a great world empire
In the end both occurred: Britain proper having received neither peace nor destruction; Germany was annihilated, partitioned into the BRD and DDR; and the great world empire was destroyed, the UK reduced to playing Airstrip One to one of the former colonies.
rewarded by Marshall plan making it one of the wealthiest countries on the continent. Not many people know there was an alternative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgenthau_Plan hopefully this one will be implemented after ru falls.
Grain from Ukraine and the oil fields of Baku, were needed. Once baku was not seized in 41 instead of Moscow the Nazis pretty much lost the war.Zhukov outlined that's what he would have done. Although it's a long way from Poland to past the caucuses.