mealiness. germany is a continental power right now and its not invading its neighbors or swinging its dick around to do so. hitler's strength was in political theory. he should have been writing books and instructing followers in his ways. as a national leader he was far out of his depth and his naivete and erratic and irrational policy was a reflection of that. even the revanchism mentioned by others was inconstant. danzig was worth war with the world over yet hitler had no problem abandoning german south tyrol and the german irredentists living there to an italy that was just as hyper nationalist as germany was. as an aside, german ambitions in ww1 were both retarded and made up on the fly after the war began. falkenhayn was the only leading german figure who was thinking clearly in the months following the failure of the schlieffen plan while everyone else was swept up in fantasies about taking over swaths of russia. its ironic that germany is really bad at grand strategy given the autistic effort they traditionally put into such things.
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