Preparing for Defeat

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64. True, but then again Hitler was about as incompetent a strategist

and military planner as, well, as Putin.

All "his" early victories were the result of German General Staff planning and preparation.

One by one all his most competent generals were forced to retire or were shuffled from front to front whenever they defied Hitler's absurd orders to hold everywhere and always. By 1943 a group of them were actively planning to kill him.

Not to mention, the Russians did have some help. The US, Britain and Canada supplied military equipment worth hundreds of billions in today's dollars. Such aid is unlikely to come from anywhere to help Russia subjugate Ukraine. A mob of Syrian mercenaries and press-ganged conscripts hardly qualify. Nor is anyone likely to stage a Normandy style landing or conduct a bombing campaign to divert Ukrainian ground and air forces from its eastern front.

Finally, it should be noted that a lot of those "Russians" who fought their way to Berlin, officers and enlisted, happened actually to be Ukrainians.