KenV, it's just clickbaiters being dramatic. It's hard to get noticed among the din of publications otherwise.
Agreed. I just asked the questions to point out the obvious, which some folks seem to have missed resulting in them taking such "analysis" seriously.
Why does everyone forget about the Russians in WW2? They lost a lot of cheap tanks. There is a school of thought that they won WW2 for us on the eastern front.
All the allies lost a lot of cheap tanks. And a whole lot of tank crews. The Russians might still find such losses acceptable (which seems doubtful), but we in the West no longer do. So no cheap equipment for us any more. And there's zero doubt that the Eastern front made the Western front possible.