幼女戦記Ⅱ

A very apt one, yes. Tanya has specifically mentioned the Chicago School of Economics, free market principles, the rights of the individual, and so on-all or which are pretty standard features of libertarian and lib-right philosophy. They were probably alluding to something like the Non-Aggression Principle in their condemnations of Being X. And as Tanya is about as blatant an example of a non-malicious highly functioning antisocial personality disorder as it gets, yes, they are an excessively reason-oriented libertarian. Granted, their thinking has some flaws per libertarian thought, but that is where they land.

Eh, more the logical conclusion of its perspective as applied to humans. X holds humans in disdain and is willing to violate ethical boundaries for its own interests. As hypocritical and uncritical as Mary is, she at least thinks she is doing right by people. Her ethics are extremely poorly developed-ultimately little more than what serves her interests or aesthetics is good, and what contradicts it is bad. She is almost wholly enslaved to emotional reactivity. Being X, while petty, is not obsessive and myopic. It is a disgruntled spirit with a comparatively macrocosmic view who performed their role for a long time without truly understanding or believing in it. Being X is, ultimately, treating humans far more inhumanely, as a means to an end, than Tanya is, who deliberately things of many of them in terms of objects of utility more than as people (they at least recognize their individual rights and their own obligation to not aggress upon them), and not out direct personal grievance but as a philosophical argument. Mary is the pettiness of a disgruntled half-obedient angel foisted upon a traumatized, righteously indignant, and inappropriately privileged little girl. While we can draw a parallel in that both are ultimately motivated by an obsessive need to be right that results in them being utterly wrong, that describes too much of all humans (and in this setting, whatever class of entities X belongs to) to characterize her as an avatar. Mary is, at the end of the day, a disposable pawn for X's purposes wherein Tanya is much more important.

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Real history repeated in a fictional story. Nazi also believe they can take Moscow and it was the first nail that build the coffin for Nazi. Unified States is well rested and can pump out unlimited supply for the war and when the Unified States get their troop ready for invasion. The Empire will be done just like in the real history. Tanya and Zettour are the real one. They are the only people who know the real cost for the Empire if the war continue.

If it isn't clear by now, the Empire is now doomed. They've already clearly been stretched very thin by now on the Eastern front and not Britain and not US hasn't even fully entered the ring. It's the age old the rear can't see the realities in the front. Sure Tanya's unit has kept winning their battles, but that is just one unit. Poor Zettour suffering for two weeks straight now, though I fear a schism might have opened now between him and Rudersdorf.

Well it really isn't just one unit that keeps winning, considering overall Theatre objectives are still being achieved. It's more that they only keep winning through disproportionate sacrifices and a small amount of miracles. Just see this episode how exhausting it was for Salamander Group to simply arrive at their position. They were extremely lucky they weren't spotted and attacked on the way. These small things are what the rear can't see. In short, it's not that the combat units have started to lose all of a sudden. It's that they're now starting to win in spite of the overall planning and not because of it. That can create an illusion for the rear the imperial war machine still got steam in it. In reality, it's ringing ALL the alarm bells.

This anime presents a central Europe as a strong monarchy at the start of the 20th century, instead of our history's version with a loosely associated federation under a kaiser. That could hint the turning point was in their version of the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), leaving an intact Holy Roman Empire (HRE) to fill the role of the anime's empire instead of devastated Germanic lands in our timeline. Such an empire would have had a stronger influence on that reality's version of royalist France, and even if Napoleon could emerge as an emperor under those conditions by the 19th century, he'd have faced a much stronger opponent in the HRE between him and Russia. The only way he'd be in a position to make the case winters are bad in Russia is if he broke the central empire 90 years before Tanya's time, but the central empire seems quite functional at the start of the story.

imagine a modern company thats doing well and making lots of money. they then proceed to layoff large swaths of people to save money. the company continues to do well for a while because the layoffs were only targeted at less senior or lower performing employees. these employees are then stretched thin with crazy overtime and generous amounts of luck to continue to achieve the goals management set. management sees only money saved but no drop in results, and thinks their plan was a huge success. they dont see how much extra work the employees they still have put in, or the lucky breaks they catch to continue to deliver the results the empire (and this fictional company) is on the brink of collapse as soon as those senior high performing employees run out of luck, or become unavailable for whatever reason (ie. illness, death, switching jobs).

The expense/mode of difficulty to achieve their mission and military theater objectives have significantly risen and they keep pushing the envelope because all the domestic leadership is seeing from the rear are the results/victories. Logistics are stretched thin, with a lot of their victories just being a coin toss due to luck falling on their side (not being spotted while traveling aground deep into enemy territory, luckily happening upon the hidden enemy HQ, etc) . Domestic leadership wants more decisive victories in order to be in a position of leverage for negotiations, ignoring the fact at how dangerously exposed their military positions now are. They're pushing their luck at this point.

Poor Zettour suffering for two weeks straight now, though I fear a schism might have opened now between him and Rudersdorf. To give him credit where it's due: Even Rudersdorf expressed doubts about the mission in their last meeting... But he's a soldier at heart still (I was thinking about this when he said "As long as I can sleep, doesn't matter where I sleep"). His view is "I'm not sure about the mission, but if the people above say it's a go, then it's a go". While Zettour thinks "I'm not sure about the mission, so I should try to change their mind".

I get your angle but it's not an accurate depiction. Because they're close friends they kinda act like one brain. If ruderdolf comes up with a plan, zettour is already thinking the same thing cos he knows him. So zettour thinks within Ruderdolfs frame of thinking. So the kind of friction you depicted in your example. doesn't really happen in the anime. The only time we've seen them not seeing the same thing with the anime is current ep

It doesn’t make him illogical. Just because Zettour is now showing this big desire to end the war once and for all doesn’t mean he never had it. We just didn’t see it until now. He is a strategist at heart like you said. He knows where to cut his losses. This was literally their one big chance to finally end this senseless fight and Ruderdolfs fucking said “Bet, I’ll throw as many corpses as I need to maintain the illusion of absolute victory”. He is aware of the thin chain of support, he fucking said it will be “difficult” to win any more fights and yet he still let those assholes that have never put a foot in the battlefield taunt him !!!! Zettour agreeing with the government fuckers if anything would truly make him seem illogical.

We saw this in the last episode. Rudersdorf, just like Weiss, knows that peace talks are better, but can't accept it on a human level. Tanya was always Zettour's prodigy because they think about things extremely similarly. They are too logical, which Tanya realises and tries to account for, but is not always successful. She even criticises Zettour's plans because of it, but still falls victim to the mindset.

Rudersdorf was a hot head last season, but it seems the death of his future son-in-law and how badly that impacted his wife and daughter has broken him. The clear implication being that his daughter's fiance was a soldier who fell in the war. Which then fractured his family. Leading the old soldier to lose his moral support while stewing alone in his grief. He's lost what rationality he had and can no longer look at the war through an objective lens. Ruder has become a broken man.

I'd argue it was always pretty obvious that this was not going to be some happy ending anime where Tanya and Being-X become bros and Germa- I mean the empire would win the war. Being-X most likely would rather see the entire world burn than let Tanya get away with being a heathen and have her a a nice cozy life. But yeah, the usual politicians. Back then, today, mostly no difference. It is all self interest and they rather soak the ground with blood than taking an obvious win. From here on it is only going downhill.

It's kinda funny that in season 1 they kept talking how it's going to be the world war and how it means sooner or later US will join and everybody was taking it very seriously, yet now only Zettour seems to remember it and everyone else only seem to focus on this one enemy to the east. Plus during these talks of WW Tanya told them the main focus should be keeping their casualties to minimum and they agreed with it but now it's all about more sacrifices.

If it isn't clear by now, the Empire is now doomed. They've already clearly been stretched very thin by now on the Eastern front and not Britain and not US hasn't even fully entered the ring. Just going to add that I rewatched the series recently, and pretty much the first scene in Not-Germany HQ was a discussion of strained logistics forcing a retreat of the front lines. That was the earliest phase of the war, before the Entente ever invaded! We are years past that with multiple new players having jumped into the game. The real miracle is that the Empire has held out so long with no real allies. This was truly their last chance to sue for peace and lick their wounds.

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It was absolutely sickening to hear the politicians talk about "our sacrifice" while dismissing the opinions of the military... the ones actually watching good men and women die on a daily basis. Many of you will have to die, but that is a sacrifice we are willing to make Ruder, mustache man, could have backed up Zettour in giving the clueless politicians a reality check... but grief has broken him. Hence why Zettour was clenching his fists so tight he bled. He now knows he can't trust his old friend anymore.

To be fair Rudersdorf was already thinking that way when the initial peace treaty was written up. Though, at least the offensive this episode can be justified because it was in pursuit of getting the Empire more favorable conditions in the peace deal, instead of the base "fucking nothing for all sides" that Zettour was willing to consider. Did his son-in-law die between the episodes? Because that would certainly explain the switch up from something that was risky but justifiable, to all or nothing behavior.

Did his son-in-law die between the episodes? Because that would certainly explain the switch up from something that was risky but justifiable, to all or nothing behavior. Not really sure on that part. I think this episode was the first time it was brought up. But the last few episodes have shown us that national pride is very much strong when it comes to ending the war. Even Tanya's soldiers and officers have a similar mindset with the sunk cost fallacy affecting Rudersdorf and High Command.