WWII Parallels with Current Events...

With the firing of a 4-star General and the slapping down of another 4-star General, maybe there are some parallels in history to explain the real reason that the * admin is so hot to spread our military forces even thinner with talk of an Iranian invasion:

Hitler invaded Russia and set-up camps for a substantial number of his troops in North Africa.

Maybe it was, in part, because he was afraid to keep them in Europe when he knew that some of his Generals would eventually begin plotting to overthrow his regime.

If a large amount of his troops were successful invading Russia, so much the better: they were busy and out of the way until he needed them for some other mission.

Hitler could, oh, maybe even get away with stealing elections with his military off-balance from deployments and re-deployments.

If his invasion of Russia was not successful, then those troops and their commanders were one less enemy from which the paranoid Hitler had to defend himself.

Can you see any other parallels with current events?

I read somewhere that Bush majored in history. (I X-posted this in American History forum.)

on Hitler's rationale for his troop deployments. I'd never thought or heard of it before.