Foreign Policy Realism

[Sergeant Gleed]

I'm not sure you can compare the dynamic of a couple of hundred years ago to today with the advances in technology that now exist.

Why not? Have people changed?

[Captdon]

Of course. The state is a political entity and all matters of state are political by definition. Poland was crushed and thereby ceased to be a political entity so, yes, defense is political.

Okay. That makes sense but I have never heard of it before. Seems to be pretty broad.

[DGUtley]

You are a damn moron.

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[Captdon]

The claim that Germany intended to dominate the world is not just wrong but laughable coming from the Western powers whose empires spanned almost half the globe. Like it or not, the Nazis were right. Western liberals were full of $#@!. They're condemnation of Nazi Germany was hypocritical.

No. it is not laughable. Hitler certainly intended that Germany dominate the world. He didn't think he'd be the one but he certainly believed Germany would and should be the dominant country.

He took the vast expanse of Western Russia and could easily have defended it but he wanted the Soviet Union destroyed.

[Captdon]

I didn't say it wasn't but then so were the Western powers that went to war with her. So were the Soviets. What's your point?

No one had defended the Nazi regime. Stupid tactic. Make better arguments and you won't have to resort to that.

Germany intended to make the world a German world. That's a fact. You're either defending the Germans or just being contrary. It's laughable, to use your favorite term.

[Captdon]

It was Moldovia until '41 and after '44. The initiation of an Eastern Front was not strategically sound, and yes, Panzers, and eventually Tigers, burn a lot of mother*&^%*# fuel.

Germany would have defeated the Russians if they had started their invasion on time and stuck to the plane Hitler going into the Mediterranean was stupid. He gained nothing of value and ended up in the Moscow suburbs in winter.

The same applies to Leningrad and Stalingrad. Hitler wasn't smart. He was ready and willing.

[Captdon]

No, it's just that you brought up on a myth and you don't know what to do when it's challenged. No worries. It's common.

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Yea, everything is a myth except what you believe. You guess right sometimes. What you believe is a lie by you to satisfy your being an arrogant pissant. Read real books.

[Captdon]

Wow.....

Nah, you just have to understand him. We peons don't know anything. He does.

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[Mister D]

Germany intended to make the world a German world. That's a fact. You're either defending the Germans or just being contrary. It's laughable, to use your favorite term.

No, they didn't. You're regurgitating the nonsense you were brought up believing. No worries. It's common among your generation.

[Mister D]

Okay. That makes sense but I have never heard of it before. Seems to be pretty broad.

Politics is a broad category. What did you think it meant? Democrats versus Republicans?