Chris Madel

So that just has to be factored in.

Well, they're dividing it and dividing it because there's a southern thrust.

And that's vital because you cut off the Red Army advance into Romania, but you also get into Ukraine, which is the breadbasket of Europe, of course.

And Germans are short of food, so they need the food that Ukraine can produce.

So you're not only in this first plan by Marx, are you splitting your forces into two, one north of the Pripyat marches, one south into Ukraine.

You're also then splitting the northern force between a drive to Moscow and a drive to Leningrad.

So you're asking, you're

Well, yes.

And in 1812, the point is that the Russian army can retreat into the depths of the country.

Yeah.

But Marx reckons that they can't do that anymore because a modern army would be unable to abandon its lines of supply.

And also, much of the Soviet industry is in the West.

So therefore, they could be expected to stand before the Pripyat marches.

In which case, they don't have to divide all their forces.

Yeah, there's a supposition of success.

But also there's also this this this this thing, isn't there, with the Germans that, you know, we're Prussians.

And what we do is we do we do.

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