re: 73 Years ago today: Battle of Stalingrad ends with the surrender of 6th Army

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Because, despite claiming neutrality, the US was giving Great Britain a ton of supplies. Hitler wanted an excuse to go after the shipping routes. No one really respected the US military at the time and they didn't think the US would be a real threat

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Gargantuan mistake on his part. The U.S. was already the world's biggest economy and had the industrial capacity to build armaments at a pace Germany had no hope of ever keeping up with. Add in the fact the U.S. had millions upon millions of men it could put into uniform and it becomes clear to anyone that Germany could not hope to match the U.S. from a military standpoint. Then on top of that add in the fact Germany was already locked in a war with both Great Britain and the USSR... it just makes no sense. It's the definition of insanity.