I still haven't the faintest idea of what distortion there was that you saw in that post of mine, Ireland.

I think you might be misunderstanding what I said about Britain being weaker than Germany in the summer of 1940. My point was that in military terms Germany looked a lot stronger, and the general assumption was that it was a lot stronger, and that Britain would come to terms.

In fact if you read Churchill's speech about "fight them on the beaches" what he is describing is a desperate but determined fighting retreat, against the odds.

Now I suppose there may be revisionist historians who might claim that in fact this was exaggerated, and Britain was actually in a much stronger position, and was really stronger than Germany even at that time. But I don't find them very convincing.

Arguing the toss about past history is entertaining enough, though nothing more. But the suggestion that it would have been possible to turn the British Army against the Russians at the end of the war - I don't believe there would have been a snowball's chance in hell of doing that. And I can't imagine the American troops being too keen on it.