(June 6, 2014 at 5:28 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote:(June 6, 2014 at 1:37 pm)Brian37 Wrote: 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.
No shit. As much as I value what the allies did in WW2, for some stupid fucking reason, especially with republicans, we are still stuck on the high of that win, forgetting that technology has changed and the nature of war itself has changed, and we have gotten stuck in quagmires ever since.
It is not as simple as putting boots on the ground anymore.
