70th Anniversary of D-Day

[A Theist]

In that sense, The Battle of Moscow was the decisive battle of WWII as it condemned Germany to a war of attrition it could never have hoped to win.

You would think that Hitler would have learned a lesson from history and better prepared his armies when Napolean broke rule number 1. Big egos and a false sense of invincibilty proved to be their undoing.

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Germany really fucked up attacking Russia. I think they would have been fine if they had stopped at Europe. They also could have gotten lots of Africa too. But, as morbid as it sounds, their greed did them in and we are all better off because they simply went too far.

I wonder if Hitler thought it would go the same as it did for WWI.

Germany and Russia clashed in WWI as well and the Germans virtually overran Russia (the Brusiliov Offensive being the only time Russia got in a good punch) and Germany did this while fighting France and Italy on other fronts. Maybe Hitler thought, "hey, France is down, Britain is isolated, the Italians are on my side, and Stalin has weakened his own military with his purges. Why wouldn't this work?"

Before anyone says, "yeah, but the Russian Revolution..." that didn't happen until after the Russians had lost their war. While I'm not an expert in the details of the Russian Revolution, from what I've studied of the first world war, it seems like the revolution happened because of the Tzar's defeat, not the other way around.

Just goes to show you that past wars are not necessarily an indication of how future wars are going to go.

They suffered a lot of defeats and there was widespread discontent but they weren't out of the war yet, not until Germany, under Kaiser Wilhelm, brought Vladmir Lennon into Russia from exile and helped finance the revolution there in hopes of taking Russia out of the war. After the Bolsheviks took control they signed a peace treaty with Germany.... Germany also attempted a similar tactic to keep America out of the war. A message was intercepted that Germany had promised money and assisstance to Mexico and help it regain the Northwest territories they lost to America if they would join the war against the United States.