Victor D. Hanson: Why Germany Engaged in an Unwinnable WWII

[erronis]

1. Good presentation if a bit disjointed.

I don't know about how the winners/losers measure success/failure.

He points out civilian deaths caused by military actions and links these to the perpetrators. Dresden, Hiroshima, Japanese assaults on Chinese and other nations, 8-10M killed by the German nazis.

Interesting point that the Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombing may have prevented a far higher civilian death toll than might have occurred when the heavy bombers (B-17/24/etc.) were send from the European operation to Japan laden with napalm.

The USSR suffered terribly through the German invasion but they retaliated in kind (and are still doing so.)

The western alliance tried to put a pax in place which has held for 60-80 years but can be subterfuged by elements of the USSR (NRA/Trump/oligarchs.)