Al Murray
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They got the memo about waste.
They got the memo about spend, spend, spend.
But they're just wasting it.
They're literally wasting the waste rather than, you know, you trim your cloth.
So maybe you need a cheaper rifle so that you can afford other things.
But the other thing should not be gigantic gun batteries somewhere that it's basically impossible to do amphibious operations.
So there's just no one's ever coming.
There is no point, right?
Not that kind of waste.
And I think that's a really interesting thing because we talk about the Germans being inefficient in the way they go about the war, right?
But the Allies have inefficiency built in because that's the only way to do it.
The only way to make sure there are enough rations is to commission far too much.
You know what I mean, right?
So it's this very weird... But it's not as if...
Yeah, but Jim.
How?
Jim, they're short.
They're short of oil.
They're short of oil.
They're desperately short of oil.