The argument as I've seen it presented was that a large part of the army was already moved up close to the border and in attack positions, and not set up for defensive operations. Which is why, the argument goes, there were so many soldiers to surround and cut off.
I'm not endorsing the argument, note; I haven't looked into this enough to have anything resembling a useful opinion.
"I haven't looked into this enough"
And yet you rushed to disseminate it.
No, I commented why the counterargument given is not actually a counterargument against the thing it claims to be arguing about.
Fair enough
Re:Donald Knuth was framed
by squiggleblaz on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @08:03AM
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You have to rush to disseminate it. If you don't, the topic drops off the front page and eventually it gets locked. Hacker News has many pros, but it doesn't exactly facilitate slow, careful and thorough discussion. (Old fashioned mailing lists might've I guess, but I'm not aware of any contemporary platforms that do.)
I'm skeptical on the USSR executing on a plan to attack Germany only two weeks later given how disorganized they were in the face of the German attack. The Russian army isn't something you can move across the country in a couple of weeks.