Humiliating failure now looms, as symbolically damaging to US global standing and national self-esteem as Afghanistan or Iraq, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
they opted to stay out of it until it affected them …it goes against the narrative of the USA being a defendor of the world order and a moral authority.
Yup, 100%
Stalingrad was less about Russia, more about Hitlers hubris and general winter
I wouldn’t undervalue the Soviet peoples achievements and sacrifice. Winter affects everyone.
Yup, 100%
I wouldn’t undervalue the Soviet peoples achievements and sacrifice. Winter affects everyone.
Nor the sacrifice of so many dead. It’s seen, historically, as a tactical error, though.
Yeah, it was the turning point of the war after all