Dark Side History: Why Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 was doomed to fail!
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Napoleon invasion of Russia beginning in the 24th of June of 1812 was doomed from the start and here I am going to explain why it was doomed from the start!
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would you rather invade Russia in the Winter or Afghanistan in the Summer? 😏
@@beepboop204 Afghanistan in the summer easily as at least several empires have conquered them in those seasons, Russia has only been conquered by a few, and winter have killed many attempts.
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It was doomed from the start thanks to Napoleon's ego inflating like a balloon. The campaign faltered significantly like the Hindenburg crash. Napoleon had learnt the lessons of Charles who had tried to invade and still failed. He went beyond Smolensk, and in all honesty he could have withdrawn back to Europe, then defeated the enemy, and then done it.
I think it's also victory syndrome. The Japanese had it in WWII, where they've won so much, that they're over-confident during the early years of the war. Napoleon's ego was his own downfall. This was a campaign that by all means, should have succeeded. But he didn't account for winter and didn't provide enough on logistics. Waiting for months in a city in which he would have had adequate timing to leave, would have been better.
👍Indeed, also the bigger they come, the harder they fall. Being blinded by success is a reoccurring issue in human history as you mentioned several examples of this, in this Napoleon was not the first or last, but he is a good example of it. He underestimated the issues he faced and thus paid the price, though his soldiers paid it even more as that is the unfortunate reality of war and politics, it is usually not the leaders that suffer, but the people below.
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ANY invasion of Russia is doomed to fail because of distance and winter. And if you survive winter then you have to face nuclear winter 😂
👍 You are correct about this in modern time yes, especially about the nuclear winter part, though the Mongols did conquer the lands of Russia (though it was before Russia was really a thing) and arguably both Poland and Sweden succeeded for short periods too during the time of troubles, but due to fighting each other did not make it last. This does not take away from your main point though! Russia is very hard to invade due to the winter cold and muddy springs and falls.
@@theculturedjinni Poland and Sweden didn't cross the urals. They conquered muscovy. Moscow is not Russia (just a part) So I wouldn't count a brief occupation. As for the Mongols, yup they did it.
@@rommy007 👍Fair enough, it really depends upon the definition of Russia.