have you ever heard of a cassus belli? his idle public justification for why isn't the why. you don't invade another power out of a position of relative weakness. they ran out of oil because they spent it in a ridiculous, overstretched offensive campaign. they would be just fine in a defensive setting. russia couldn't beat finland, much less germany + allies, in a defensive slog.   literally fucking not you absolute retard faggots. stalin had just purged his officer corps and had no reserves or mechanized units to speak of. why do you think they had to conscript and build new units so rapidly? because they didn't exist. there was no way he was prepared for any kind of war, much less offensive war.
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