Oh yeah— the haberdasher’s brilliant view of realpolitik.
A two dimensional man if there ever was one. Field artillery juniorling, with a junior mentality. Thank God they didn’t tell him about the A-bomb until they had to.
No good can come out of any kind of mentality like this— and, no good did. Because he was advised by Stalin’s agents and did what they told him in the final analysis. Many many people needlessly suffered and died.