Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Kiev's Worst Defeat, Kursk Troops Surrounded Desperate, Mass Surrenders; US Shifts On Russian Terms" video.

  1. Hitler knew they needed Ukraine and the Caucasus. His generals knew they had to knock out Moscow. They pursued a mixed strategy that achieved neither, and ended up over-extended and Hitler was too stubborn to give up, some say, but he knew, I think, that to fail in that push was to fail, utterly. Only pressing on gave Germany a fighting chance. A slim chance, but still a fighting chance. They NEEDED that oil.
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  2. I disagree. When you're in an insane situation, only something crazy is going to work. For instance, the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor in December, 1941 wasn't a mistake. It was trying to take a puncher's chance in a situation the Japanese knew would otherwise end in their subordination to American and European interests, like China and every other Asian nation at the time. Japan was the Last Man Standing in Asia that wasn't under the thumb or had a chance at getting out from under the thumb (See "Commodore Perry steams into Tokyo Harbor (circa 1830, iirc)." It was crazy. The USA was a behemoth compared to Japan. But Japan was slowly, inevitably losing if they did nothing, and the USA was only getting bigger and stronger in the meantime. Maybe Kursk offensive pays off. Maybe it triggers an outpouring of foreign assistance that's an order of magnitude (or 2) greater. Game changer. Maybe the political impact of the brazen attack galvanizes support for scrappy Ukraine from nations all around the world. If it had (It didn't), then the audacious, strategically unsound offensive is made into something much more. Ukraine needed to change the game. It was losing the game. The Kursk offensive will hasten their end, if it fails, which it appears it has, but it gave them a puncher's chance of re-setting the game board, something Ukraine desperately needed.
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  3. Depends on how late you stay up.
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