Sacred Haven of Debauchery

At the Nuremberg Trials, German military commander Alfred Jodl said that "if we did not collapse already in the year 1939, that was due only to the fact that during the Polish campaign, the approximately 110 French and British divisions in the West were held completely inactive against the 23 German divisions."[16] General Siegfried Westphal stated that if the French had attacked in force in September 1939, the German army "could only have held out for one or two weeks."[17]

It's kind of amusing. When I play Stellaris, the AI skillfully exploits the fact that I'm fighting on two fronts and that the bulk of my forces won't be able to react quickly to an invasion. The AI declares war suddenly, and its fleets are almost immediately ready to enter my systems, and they advance relentlessly and without stopping. But in real life, the military staged the famous "Phoney War" (by the way, I like the English term "Phoney War" better), as a result of which Germany first captured territories in the east and then moved its divisions back to the west and captured France. This creates an association with completely passive AI on an easy difficulty level, which meekly awaits its fate, but no, this is real life. Interesting.