In other words, Washington and London now know that what they had hoped would happen has indeed happened. Japan will not attack Russia in Siberia. And Germany cannot extricate itself from Russia. The German army is caught in the dangerous quicksand of a war in Russia plus war in Europe. No matter how hard Germany will fight in the future, she has already lost everything she might have hoped to gain when her troops first set out in 1939 to expand the Nazi empire.
