Smitty's last post was Feb 25th, should we put his face on a milk carton?

[TheReal_ND]

No WWII kicked off when Hitler took the Danzig corridor and England had always hated the fact that the German empire was able to out compete them economically based off land mass and work ethic alone (thank you based Catholic monks.) Once that happened the pro Anglo elitists realized they had a problem once again and appeasement was no longer an option. They couldn't let Hitler vie with communist Russia. They couldn't let Hitler gain control of the European mainland. Everything in England's foreign policy precluded allowing the land mass to unite under anything that could threaten their hegemonic control of trade via sea.

[Smitty-48]

Have you guys seen this?

[Speaker to Animals]

WW2 was pretty much inevitable, in my opinion, because of the way WW1 ended.

[Smitty-48]

No WWII kicked off when Hitler took the Danzig corridor and England had always hated the fact that the German empire was able to out compete them economically based off land mass and work ethic alone (thank you based Catholic monks.) Once that happened the pro Anglo elitists realized they had a problem once again and appeasement was no longer an option. They couldn't let Hitler vie with communist Russia. They couldn't let Hitler gain control of the European mainland. Everything in England's foreign policy precluded allowing the land mass to unite under anything that could threaten their hegemonic control of trade via sea.

The Danzig Corridor was the rubric invoked by the British and French, but all they cared about was their empires and securing them by way of Suez.

This is why Churchill just wanted to fight in North Africa and the Med, while the American generals were raging at FDR to invade France because the American generals knew they were getting roped into fighting to Keep China British, not democracy.

[Smitty-48]

All Churchill ever cared about was the Empire, he started the First World War for the Empire, he escalated the Second World War for the Empire, only America was ever fighting for freedom.

[TheReal_ND]

Have you guys seen this?

German cavalry tactics are really a beauty to behold. No other forces came close except America I guess. Germany understood them well before the war even broke out. They watched the Italians attempt them in the aid of Franco and the Italians lost miserably against infantry units because, according to the Italians, they didn't include infantry support. The Germans just shook their heads and said no you can use tanks without infantry you are just doing it all wrong. Germany was the undesputed master of cavalry. The Teutonic Scourge.

Great video btw

[Smitty-48]

An excellent visualization of encirclement war in action, it's not about how many forces you have total, its about how you use your maneuver forces to cut large formations off from their lines of communications and therein force them to surrender without having to fight them.

[Smitty-48]

Here's part two;

[TheReal_ND]

Here's part two;

These are good. I like how it demonstrates that an over extended Wermacht was still taking massive amounts of POW's. Never mind the amount of partisian fighters they must have been forced to liquidate on the spot. Speaking from a purely revisionist point of view I think it is likely that the Germans never felt like they had time for all the territory they conquered to deal with them in any effective means. It's amazing that such a land war ever happened on that scale. I doubt there will ever be one again like that. Not for a long thousand years or so.

[Smitty-48]

The Germans invoked that it was a "new kind of war" because the Bolsheviks were a new kind of enemy, basically liquidate Stalin & Co before they liquidate you, because that's what they will do if they get to Berlin.

And Stalin was indeed poised to march on Berlin, Hitler simply preempted him, which is why so many Soviet formations were ripe for the encirclement, as they were in an attack formation and not prepared to defend.