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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.
The nature that has change is we have to sanitize war now, even though in WWII we tried to spare civilians it wasn't our first responsibility, civilian deaths were accepted as part of the war, the goal was to end the war and the horrors it brings quickly. To sanitize war is a contradiction of actions.
GC
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
