I imagine you ' re Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield up on the ISS trolling us via the down link . uColChrisHadfield <| sep |> delete SRS and IP ban their mods and frequent users , uspez <| sep |> To be fair it ' s very easy to look back and see all the mistakes but in the situation that they where in he was probably playing it safe . Getting all of his forces in a good position to push further forward instead of launching an army further in as they could be cut off . Many people come out and say that Hitler ' s biggest mistake was invading Russia but actually he had no choice . It was either invade Russia or Russia invades when it ' s organised . That would have been really bad . There is a recorded conversation between Germany ' s ambassador and Russia ' s ambassador on YouTube somewhere which basically changes what people think entirely . If I remember correctly Russia was threatening Germany . It sounded like Russia wanted something from Germany which was unrealistic forcing Germany into war with them . I ' ll try and find it but I tried awhile back and could never find it .