What was the most "What were they thinking?" moment

>>2841800

Don't fuck with the Jews.

>>2841794
Operation Barbarossa

>>2841833
This in part.

Basically Hitler invading the USSR then declaring war on the US 6 months later, all while already engaged in war with Britain

Napoleon declaring war on Russia just for bailing out of the Continental System
Operation Market Garden

>>2841896
It was Japan that declared war on the US first, though. Also, invading the USSR was actually a good move at first since the nazis captured a huge amount of soviet soldiers and equipment massed on the eastern frontier, but lated wasted all of their gains by trying to go after too many objectives at once.

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>>2841794
>leaving vietnam
>murder of seth rich
>dunkirk
>1914-1918

>>2841794
Japanese declaring war on USA

>>2841794
France pushing into Germany unopposed in 1939 then coming to a stop and turning back

>>2841794
Crassus's ill-fated invasion of Mesopotamia

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>>2841800
*Record scratch* *freeze frame*

>>2841947
There was no obligation for Hitler to declare war on the US, the treaty with Japan was only defensive in nature.

>>2841896
Germany was basically high on war when declaring war on USSR. The suprisingly easy victories with Poland and France had made them think their armies were stronger than originally percieved and the weak performance of the USSR army in the winter war meant it was the ideal opertunity to attack them. Declaring war on US was mostly just showing solidarity with Japan in hopes Japan would attack USSRs back side eventually.

>>2842056
dont fuck with an arab gulf states oil, basically

>>2842145
God you are naive and ill informed.

The us were going to declare on germany anyways he just wanted the publicity of being the one who declares war.

>>2842411
It might be my 21th century mind speaking but I really don't see why you'd want that. It sounds to me like already in the 1940s people didn't appreciated going to war for no reason.

>>2842056
>when you invade a Karling

>>2841896
https://youtu.be/ClR9tcpKZec

They never expected the success of Lend-Lease or the impact of it.

>>2841800
>US not listed on the left side

>>2842056
>no Israel
>even though according to both the Yinon Plan and A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm the destruction of Iraq was necessary for Israel's survival

What did the Bush presidency, funded by Sheldon Adelson and AIPAC mean by this?

>>2841800
>>2842056
One of those things is not like the other

>>2842004
It was a sound plan, it just didn't work.

>>2842541
The german invasion was crushed before lend lease mattered

>>2842542
US didn't fight for Israel in the six day war and provided minimal assistance to Israel before the conflict. USSR aid to arabs was much more significant.

>>2842550
>Entire world unites against Iraq
>Even fucking Syria fights alongside the US
>still blame j00z

>>2842411
>The us were going to declare on germany anyways he just wanted the publicity of being the one who declares war.
The isolationist sentiment was very strong in the US, and it is unlikely that they would have declared war had war not been declared on them. Particularly after fighting through a war with Japan, had Germany ditched them. Lend-lease is another thing, which the US would have kept sending either way, because FDR wanted to help Britain against Germany, but it is unlikely that they would have become an active belligerent. Not that it would have helped Germany much.

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12 battles on the same ground, over 600k Italian troops dead.

>>2842005
They thought that it'd be better that they fight on the defensive, where they might summon the genius of their generals with fixed artillery which they had excelled at since WWI. And that the Maginot line stood on the Rhine made them reason that Germany would have to throw themselves at their lines in the thin strip that was the Belgian-German border (though Belgians were idiotic and denied the French from setting up their defenses there). Basically everything on the premise that attacking is more costly than defending, and that Germany would've exhausted their war supplies in doing so (which it would have if the war had lasted one month more).

Also, the British refused to shoulder the French in the attack, so the French had to go "meh" at the thought of doing it alone.