![]() Iron law of bureaucracy applies: NATO didn't simply disband in 1991 even though its nominal raison d'etre (the USSR) had shrivelled up and blown away. ![]() And in the case of the World Wars, preparation involved building institutions so vast that they provided entire 18-65 year career paths, right to the highest levels. People who live through that kind of thing tend to be a bit swivel-eyed about over-preparing for the re-run. Well, let's see: because WW2 was actually the deferred second act of WW1 - deferred for almost exactly enough time to breed up another few windrows of cannon fodder - and between them they were the most traumatic military event to affect the developed world since the Thirty Years' War (and it's sideshow, the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, aka the British Civil Wars)? Yet NATO military developments continue to be justified on the basis of fighting a great power war against China or Russia. It would be an enormous improvement if it actually were popular to emphasize the last war - or any war following, oh, the dissolution of the USSR. I know it's a popular saying that generals are always fighting the last war, but in this case it looks like the victorious Western powers of WW II, and their allies, are always fighting the one good war. Taiwan circa 2000 is 1938 Czechoslovakia and the PRC is Germany Iraq circa 2002 is Germany circa 1938 and not-invading it would be Chamberlain-style appeasement Bush is Chamberlain and North Korea is 1938 Germany When it comes to Crimea, CZECHOSLOVAKIA 1938 REDUX: In this drama, Putin plays Hitler while Obama is Chamberlain. Not-bombing Iran is a repeat of Chamberlain’s 1938 appeasement. There's also the it's-always-1938 interpretation of geopolitics. Nobody pay any attention to the swords of armageddon hanging on the wall! Let's all plan for massive-scale conventional war and pretend that it is both psychologically plausible and likely that a great-power conventional loser will accept defeat like Germany 1945.Īnd it's not just the bizarro-world fantasies about fancy kit going toe-to-toe over years of big exciting battles that are stuck in the youth of my grandfather. We need huge numbers of planes to go toe-to-toe with China. We need more stealthy pew-pew to strike deep into Russian territory. Russia and China apparently use similar outlandish scenarios but with NATO playing the villain. ![]() But there's no plausible path to taking France at gunpoint.) (Of course, Zombie Hitler could devastate France with conventional weapon strikes against its infrastructure too. The only interesting question is whether Germany would suffer nuclear devastation or a "clean" crippling like Baghdad in Gulf War I. France would run out of significant targets before it could train up the first new batch of green conscripts. If Zombie Hitler became leader of modern Germany and tried to occupy France again, the crippling strikes against German oil, rail, and electricity infrastructure that took years during WW II would be largely complete in a matter of weeks. Every major power has reasonably accurate cruise missiles and various other precision guided munitions. The material circumstances have changed such that great powers can no longer engage in a years-long national mobilization slugfest against each other. Spacebar[for parking brakes but very much needed on landing tbh to slow downĪll I can honestly really say here is many MANY thanks to you guys for supporting me in this little build series I've done so far, been seeing the like 1500+ subs on a BUNCH of my planes thus far and I'm blown away never thought these'd even get to 100 much less over 1000.Why is World War II always being refought? ![]() I 'may' have hit the seat limit as well so, theres a heft of decorative 'seats' in the plane.ĪLT itself turns on a few operation lights and also the cabin lights! Weighing ingame at over 93,000kg, its one helluva beast to fly, yet still handles quite like a dreamliner, heavy, but smooth. Welcome possibly the biggest torture I've put myself through, the Airbus A380!Īt a staggering 4817 bricks, this behemoth is easily the largest aircraft I have and possibly ever will make.
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