@AdHocToth @Boomerman @Godcast @Shadowman311 ... and he lost despite that because he was focused on defeating his enemy militarily rather than tricking them into harming themselves or some other stratagem.

Compare that to modern China, which is far more hostile to our existence than Hitler ever was, but who literally bribed our political and business establishment to ship our manufacturing base to China.

What is the lesson here? Soft power has fewer risks than hard power, and should be exhausted before hard power is attempted.