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*** '''And As If That Wasn't Bad Enough:''' He invades Russia in ''August''. Yes, right at the beginning of the cold weather season. He invades the one place on the planet absolutely infamous for defeating invaders with winter, right at the beginning of fall. (Admittedly, the original plan was to invade during spring and was delayed only because of Germany's need to go assist Italy in the Greek campaign, but ''still''.)
*** '''But The Hole Still Has No Bottom:''' When you consider that the first part of Russia he conquered was the Ukraine, which has never liked being part of Russia in the first place and was openly welcoming the Nazis in and eagerly offering to join in and help Hitler conquer the rest of Russia. With 20+ million Ukrainians, already used to Russian conditions, plus the rich logistical potential of the Ukraine breadbasket, accepting their aid would have given Hitler a fair shot at being the first man to successfully conquer Russia considering how close he came in reality. So what does Hitler do? ''Start murdering and oppressing the Ukrainians wholesale''. He actually brutalized them to the point where the Ukrainians cheerfully accepted '''Stalin''' as an alternative. Now that must have taken some doing.
*** '''Was there no end to this man's stupidity?:''' The German army also knew they needed a new weapon for such a campaign, one with the accuracy, range, and armor-piercing capabilities of a rifle combined with the high rate of fire, fast reload time, and maneuverability of a submachine gun. They came up with the MbK-42, the world's first assault rifle, and early testing proved, to say the least, astounding. Clearly this new weapon could have decimated Russian troops with ease. But in a political fight in Berlin, Hitler threw a hissy fit and scraped the plans for this weapon, just to show its funders that ''he'' was in charge.By the time he listened to reason and allowed the project to continue, it was 1943, and the German army was getting their ass handed to them by the Russians.
* On February 26, 1993, Mohammed Salameh used a Ryder truck to try to blow up the World Trade Center.
** '''You'd Expect''': That he'd be more concerned about hiding from arrest than about getting a few bucks back.
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