CascadeOfLight

*NATO *10 years ago

I question the US's claims over a certain region (the whole of it)

They joined a civil war in progress on the morally correct side

Would you say Ukraine was "preparing for a possibly (sic)" when its Nazi special forces were creating Hitlerjugend-style child soldier training camps?

Damn, if the Ukrainians had your tactical insight they might've won by now!

NOOOOO how dare you question our imperial loyalty?? We're lifetime running dogs of the Empire! We would never aid and abet the barbarians with our superior western knowledge!!

That was my take away: brand new thought terminating cliche dropped.

And referred to in the past tense.

That gave me a sudden thought, so I went back and checked (I'm just using the wikipedia pages for the V2 and Me-262) - in total, there were 1430 262s built, but there were over 3000 V-2s.

They could have tripled their jet interceptor force, something the allies had no answer to (other than just winning the ground war - it wouldn't have turned the tide, but still), but instead they made a strategically insignificant number of Special Expensive Bombs and spent basically all of them on random civilians.

The V2 program cost about $500 million - adjusting for Nazi Germany's smaller economy, it took just a barely smaller fraction of their industrial output than the Manhattan project did for the US. Each individual rocket cost more than a Me-262, a cutting-edge jet fighter (~100,000 RM vs 87,400 RM). The program used up one third of Germany's fuel alcohol production, each rocket requiring thirty tonnes of potatoes to distil the methanol - and due to a lack of explosives, some had warheads filled with concrete instead. When it was clear their conventional forces were being overwhelmed, the Nazis poured even more resources into it, diverting them from fighter and tank production just to crank out a few more wunderwaffen.

This is the vaunted 'fascist efficiency'.