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Old 11-14-2014, 05:57 PM
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The real question is will Putin make the same mistake that Hitler made

Hitler got his way in the Rhineland and Austria and Czechoslovakia and planned to fight the West between 1942-1944

So he figured he could easily invade Poland, get what he needed there and then build up for the really big war - instead he miscalculated and got his big war right there and then - and in the end he lost
He got several months of "Sitzkrieg" as French and British forces sat on their hands watching the final stages of the partition of Poland. In the meantime, he conquered Norway and the Low Countries. After that, he steamrolled through France in about a month and sent the BEF across the Channel in tatters. At that point, things were looking really good for Nazi Germany.

By far, his biggest strategic mistake was invading Russia, and doing so before Great Britain could be knocked out of the war. Second to that, in terms of colossal strategic blunders, was declaring war on the U.S.A. Imagine how he could have complicated things between the U.K. and the U.S. by refusing to officially declare war on the U.S. The American public, who were already baying for Japanese blood, would have had a very hard time with a unilateral declaration of war against Germany when Japan was perceived as the more legitimate, imminent threat. Congress likely wouldn't have backed the the Germany First agreement. Hitler signed his own death warrant when he held true to the Tripartite Pact and declared war on the U.S.A.
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