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In reply to the discussion: Would Hitler have won World War II if he had left Russia alone? [View all]MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)Operation Barbarossa was one of the greatest strategic blunders in all of human history.
He could have worn down the Brits, but he would have faced chemical weapons the moment he invaded. Any invasion of Britain should have followed the old Viking invasion points and not anything directly across the channel. It would have been tough going, but he could have taken The Brits eventually
Without Russia sucking away all of his resources, he could have consolidated his holdings in Western Europe prior to launching any attack on the Soviet Union, thus limiting any conflict along those lines to a single front.
Without entanglement with Japan and the US entering the European conflict. he could have eventually taken the world.
But he got pissed at the Brits not folding so opened up the Russian front and basically made it a war of massive attrition from there, especially when Japan pulled the US into the fray.