[Tax-chick]

The Germans try to deceive everybody -- their adversaries, the neutrals and their own people. They are deceiving very crudely, and only those who want to be deceived.

Projection, a key characteristic of leftists. This reminds me of an article today (2014-today) in which a college student claims she was terrified and fearful because pro-life demonstrators were holding signs in a designated free-speech zone. Leftists are driven to insane violence by the existence of other points of view; therefore, they assume everyone is.

[BroJoeK]

Tax-chick: "Projection, a key characteristic of leftists."

Colorado tanker: "When lefties scream the loudest, you know you're on target. "

hennkster: "And somewhere else, David Zaslavsky has a warm feeling..."

Somewhere I saw a list of the occasions for peace-feelers between Hitler & Stalin -- in the early days they came from Stalin and were brushed aside by Hitler, but later in the war, contacts came from Hitler's people and were brushed aside by Stalin.

Fear of Stalin making a separate peace (as Russia did in the First World War) kept President Roosevelt slavishly devoted to supporting the Soviets.
Here we see the Soviets' displeasure with the fact that at least some American press doesn't slavishly follow the Washington party line.

Of course today, Putin doesn't have such problems...

;-)