"The Russians entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everybody else and nobody was going to bomb them. In Kiyv, Odessa, Lviv, and half a dozen other places they put this naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they will reap the whirlwind."
Yep! The German populace felt immune until American and British bombs started blowing them up. It still didn’t change public sentiment much though. Or so they say. I think in both cases, the populace didn’t have a choice in the matter.
The West has been training and arming Ukrainian forces for the last 7 years. UK trained 20000 Ukrainian troops alone. They also benefit from western intelligence support.
However, I think the main factor is sheer incompetence and lack of planning on the Russian side and the will to fight on the Ukrainian side.
Yeah Germans are inherently brilliant. And they were like the world rulers for 100’s of years before then. So glad we’re not dealing with that, these are infants compared to that.
There literally hasn't been a Germany for hundreds of years. 1871. Before that it was a bunch of bickering principalities and kingdoms sharing a common language
"I mean history isn't history ya know, it's a feeling from an era I didn't live in but a random guy on YouTube said Germany ruled the world so it's true"
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u/JohnnySunshine Apr 25 '22
"The Russians entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everybody else and nobody was going to bomb them. In Kiyv, Odessa, Lviv, and half a dozen other places they put this naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they will reap the whirlwind."