Look

I'm not saying Hitler had an easy task

I'm saying he chose the worst actions

Some were what should have obviously been considered bad decisions, yes.

Others, made more sense at the time, and only retrospect reveals how much of a mistake they really were.

It was a time of revolutions, many people made similar mistakes, not just Hitler, so yeah I agree on that

We should learn from those mistakes and find what are actually the best moves

Like chess players who go from low rating to super GM rating

We need to stop thinking short-term, small scale

That's early 20th century, and those times still haunt us today

Hence, "It's Okay to be Jewish"

Yeah little things like that, and big ideas like a presidency

From small to big, we should do everything we can

And the most important thing to do is

No more mistakes

Tall order

lol

Yeah

In chess there's a saying

You don't win because you play perfect, but because you make fewer mistakes than your opponent

And when it comes to the choice of strategy, I tend to go back to Sun-Tzu

He has minor misconceptions, but overall his understanding was very strong

Didn't he also say, 'No plan, no matter how well devised, survives contact with the enemy'?

Clausewitz was also good

YEs that was Clausewitz. I think this is why our army has a saying, "amateurs think about tactics, pros think about logistics" because logistics is one part of the planning you can (hopefully) do without giving the enemy a vote.

And the axis geologically had bad logistics

and never really cared about it too

To an extent, they kind of couldn't afford to. Which reveals how bad of a position they were really in to begin with.

Like, for instance, in terms of access to fuels.

One of the reasons for the recklessness of their expansion was to try and secure access to fuel sources.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/tI1rbIYwK4A/

Logistics isn't solely about geography. But yeah the Nazis were shit at it regardless. I mean blitzkrieg makes sense when your opponent is close and there are lots of roads. Which is pretty much the polar opposite of, say, the greater Eurasian plains where your supply is mostly trains or horses.....

Exactly

But at the same time, Russia was an enemy that couldn't be ignored.

It was a really fucked position to even start out in.

🤦 Russia was their ally for most of the war.....

German intelligence believed that Russia was planning to turn on them, and so they launched a preemptive attack. Later declassified historical documents from Russia revealed, they were *right.*

Russia *was* planning to attack Germany, and Germany just beat them to the punch.

Umm, no. Stalin actually dismissed the intelligence officer who claimed Hitler was going to attack. He really overestimated their logistic acumen. And that's from the Kremlin archives. There were train cars of oil headed from Bakut to Germany when Barbarossa started.

What you have to recognize is that the axis wasn't very good as an alliance. They were basically lying to each other half the time.

I forget the source, I read it a while back. But basically, they were both preparing to betray each other, and Germany just acted first, while Russia still believed they had something to gain from delaying it.