| ▲ | onlypassingthru 3 days ago | |
Wasn't half of Napoleon's army gone by the time he reached Moscow?[0] It's the sunk cost fallacy writ large with dead bodies, no? [0]https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Napoleon-march-graphic-C... | ||
| ▲ | vdupras 3 days ago | parent [-] | |
Certainly, and they lost the other half on the way home. On the way to Moscow, there was still something to look forward to. In Moscow, with no supply, dying like flies, all they had to look forward to was a long march through the Almighty Intense Winter, during which they'd be dying like flies too. | ||