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Visstick t1_iuienvh wrote

Reply to comment by di11deux in Lithuania is readying itself to retaliate with full force to any potential Russian attack | World News by Sofie-Forsberggg

To put in a godwin

Didnt the nazis declare war on Russia eventhough already being at war with the allies?

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lIIllIIlllIIllIIl t1_iuijp6x wrote

When the Nazis declared war on Russia, the Nazis were by all metrics winning their war against the Allies. Britain was the only major ally left, and the United States hadn't joined the war yet.

Today, it's different. Russia is already doing poorly against Ukraine. Declaring war against NATO would just be suicide.

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thebestnames t1_iuikrl0 wrote

It was a wildly different situation. The Allies were not the winning side in June 1941 when the Germans launched the invasion of the USSR. France had fallen and Germany&its allies and puppets had control of the entire European continent. No way Hitler would have opened a second front had France stalled the Nazi invasion with the battle still fiercely taking place.

If we compare WW2 to the current era then its like Poland manhandling Nazi Germany, who has lost all its initial invasion force. With the Allies staying out of the war but cheering and sending weapons. Madness for the Germans to also try their luck on the French&British at that point when even getting to Warsaw is impossible.

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