a newly formed country composed of the germanic states from napoleonic times, and then adding austria, the czechs, and retaking danzig+the heavily industrialized areas of silesia etc - roughly the size of texas, took on 4 established superpowers for 12 years before they could be demonized and destroyed. the ussr, the british empire, the french empire, and the american empire all struggled and suffered trying to dismantle this texas sized state and its ardent defense. england declared war on germany. france declared war on germany. america forced japan into war, and germany honored its treaty. stalin renegged on the agreement to prevent war with england and france, and he was planning to invade. so he was invaded first at a more opportune time. germany did everything right. you know who sucked ass at war. mussolini, when he invaded greece for no fucking reason, when its leader was metaxas and he was a crypto-fascist, when it only enabled britain another proxy to donate resources to, when he took a tiny amount of ground but then lost and was losing albania. it caused germany to have to turn around, and divert resources from the eastern front. it caused the armor to not reach moscow in the 2 weeks it could have before the winter locked the armor up. muh general winter and general frost or w.e anyways, mussolini. shit cunt. hitler, on par with carl von clausewitz.
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