Sarah Paine
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The whole proposition of what he's up to is questionable, right?
But it doesn't mean that it isn't a really bitter struggle and difficult struggle.
And even though you go, well, Germany's GMP, if you add it up compared to the totality of the Allies' axis, Allies have so much more stuff.
Yeah, I mean, you can go, I think the Allies are going to win this thing.
But after how many millions of losses?
And I showed you the Battle of the Atlantic.
It goes this way, it goes that way.
It goes this way, it goes that way.
A lot of people are dying of all this.
So, yeah, the Germans made errors.
The first one is, why even go to war?
If you want to dominate Europe...
and you have really great growth rates, which in World War I they did, they would have taken over Europe years ago by just growing, right?
Now, don't do either World War.
Just keep growing your economy, and then you're going to have all these good business relations.
So the error is even going to war for these things, but it doesn't mean these wars couldn't have gone the other way.
And you're right.
You look at blunders, but you call it a blunder now because it didn't work out.
At the time, you don't know, right?
A lot of people get away with really risky things, and then you say they're brilliant.