Hitler: How did you maintain thousands of kms of supply lines?
Napoleon: Especially in the bleak unforgiving Russian winter?
Khan: What the hell are supply lines?
“Have you tried dismounting your force and mounting it again?” - Genghis Khan, Conquest Support
I just spit my Kumis all over my monitor, thank you very much.
“Yes, but our gearboxes are all still broken” - Walther von Brauchitsch
“You have to come from the east.”
Yeah and they avoided the northern part, clearly they understood Asian lands and what parts are the most conquerable.
And he did it from a hut with sticks and strings.
Turns out General Winter is actually Siberian, not Serbian. If you simply just wait to attack during winter the rivers turn into highways for your horsey friends!
to be fair, Moscow prospered by being mostly untouched by the Mongols, before that was just an small town
Normally I say that the Mongols were mostly exceptionally successful rather than terrible, and that pre-modern warfare is just horrific in general.
… but springing Moscow to prominence? That’s something horrible the Mongols really do need to answer for, smh
Well yeah they immediately saw the value in being toadies for the Huns and pretty much based all of their statecraft accordingly.
History ignoramus here, but from that map it doesn’t exactly look like they conquered “Russia” per se, if most of Siberia and the northwestern part is left out
Most of Siberia was only colonized in the 17th and 18th centuries. Even then, it was (and to some degree, still is) a peripheral region of Russia - most of the population (80%) is in European Russia.
Siberia also isn’t where Napoleon or Hitler were stopped at.
It’s a bit like conquering Canada or Saudi Arabia. Most of the country is empty wilderness of little consequence. All the important stuff is concentrated in certain areas, so holding 10,000 square miles in the core is worth more than holding 10,000,000 square miles of empty wilderness.
