pistolero on Nostr: The root cause was he overestimated the speed of the progress he'd make, because he ...

The root cause was he overestimated the speed of the progress he'd make, because he needed that much progress: he couldn't fund it otherwise and aside from that, morale would collapse quickly if he stopped picking up wins. (He'd have been done much earlier if Paris had taken a month instead of a week.) He didn't know how to fight a war in Russia and, critically, he swallowed his own bullshit about the Soviet military.

Of all the topics in history, here is just "Hitler on fedi" again. I can't think of a more boring fate.