Germany is winning the third world war

I often wonder why Germany was so foolishly impatient as to go to war. If domination was all she wanted, she could have had it without shedding a drop of blood, by merely waiting long enough and trusting to the avarice of mankind. Patience, cunning, and the appeal to avarice could bring the whole world into economic subjection by a slow interior corruption.

—Dorothy L. Sayers, 1941.