Chris Madel

Yeah.

You know, so...

his his choice is to make peace with britain which isn't going to happen or try and do a deal with the soviet union which has been rejected or invade the soviet union all of which i would argue are impossible or really bad so at this moment of victory he's actually in a really really weak situation and yet the irony is is what's going to happen is is you know they are going to go to italy's rescue in north africa they are going to go to um

Italy's rescue in Greece and Yugoslavia in the Balkans.

And they're going to steamroller again and it's going to look like they're as all-conquering as they ever were.

But their situation is just getting worse and worse and worse, even though they're still having these victories.

It's just extraordinary.

Wherein lies yet another irony?

Yes, they do.

I mean, there is a blind devotion to this new form of operating.

that comes with a kind of staggering intellectual bankruptcy from the point of view of the German high command.

Both commanders on the ground and those at a staff level.

So they just don't question that Western Europe's advanced infrastructure and geography is what helps them with their notions of the Wagenskrieg, which is the kind of sort of rapid war of maneuver, which is Blitzkrieg, in a way that the Soviet Union absolutely does not.

You know, because France is the most automotive nation in Europe.

Yeah.

By some margin.

So has the infrastructure to support it, which can then support rapid Panzer advances and mobile advances.

Yeah.

In a way that Soviet Union just does not have that.

huge gulf between what the German high command now believes is possible and is part of their USP and what is the actual reality really comes to the fore with the absolutely catastrophic shortage of motor vehicles