Quote Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh View Post
You are underestimating the importance of Great Britain's continued resistance to Soviet success. However marginal in total numbers when compared to the Eastern Front, the Med did draw resources, talent, and -- most importantly -- focus away from the East. Moreover, the resources expended on the War at Sea would have been re-channeled; Germany's parachutists could have been used as originally hoped to secure an airhead in some key locale during Barbarossa, etc.

To say the CCCP did the Lion's share is nothing more than fact, but don't go too far the other direction too quickly.
The North African theatre was materially useful to the Allies mainly because Rommel caused it to be so. Had he kept to OKW's instructions instead of trying to build his own little empire, the Axis could have made the Allied morale booster that that theatre was in practice, far more cost ineffective for the Allies than they were in the OTL (and even the OTL Allies wasted a lot of resources there).