It's not to say that no one could envision how the Axis could be defeated just that it was not an obvious goal at the time. Arguably more obvious would have been fascist rule of Europe with an uneasy ceasefire.
This is really just a map of what a policy failure the National Flood Insurance Program is.
It's easy to look back with 20/20 hindsight and say "well yeah of course it was over for Hitler when he betrayed the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact," but most people at the time were scared shitless.
Thankfully history did not go that route but lots of contemporary writings (including both FDR and Churchill's!) betray an unease about the course of the war or its ultimate end state.
It really is troubling how many of these counties that are experiencing large gains are like ground zero for climate change weather events like hurricanes.
And it has nothing to do with social commentary. The plots just suck and many of the characters are uninteresting.
I mean, it kind of was in December 1941. Germany and Italy held all of mainland Europe and were kicking the shit out of the Soviets up and down the Volga. The US had just lost a significant part of its Pacific fleet and London had just endured the Blitz.
Darth this is mochi and he is perfect
Unpredictability is not a virtue for a world leader. You never know what Kim Jong Un will do either. This is not a good thing.
Yeah but he isn't wrong that all the Alex Kurtzman trek is absolute dogshit except Strange New Worlds, which is still sometimes dogshit.
