RDN's Lucifer (nerthos)'s status on Monday, 09-Jun-14 22:11:40 UTC
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@mrmattimation @metaltao At the end of the day the war ended like it ended becuase the allies from the western front and the USSR from the eastern front put such a strain on Germany that they, outnumbered even at the early stages of the war, could not keep up. Italy had fallen as a power already, the sonar technology was good enough to stop the U boats, and there was a very real shortage of fuel and iron, worsened as the USSR advanced in the eastern front. Hitler was too reckless, and that costed him the war. If he had stopped after conquering Poland, waited, then ravaged Britain and France, never broken the pact with Stalin until the western front was a victory, and had kept the reasons for USA to get involved to a minimum, then probably most of western Europe and some of eastern Europe would be German territory, since they, on their own, weren't strong enough to defeat the axis. tl;dr, it was a rushed and poorly planned campaign and that meant defeat even with a vastly stronger army.
