80th anniversary of the Operation Barbarossa

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I have seen some pretty compelling analysis that Germany had to go to war with the Soviets in 1941, and rather than it being some mistake, was a necessary and unavoidable action by that point because of the economic situation that the Germans were in.

Kind of like Japan with regards to attacking Pearl and the European colonies in the Pacific. At a certain point it was either expand the war to acquire resources, or give up on the war and gains made thus far (for them in China, for Germany in Europe).