If the USSR had sued for peace as it did in World War One, Britain could not have succeeded in negotiating anything less than an unconditional surrender. Such an unconditional surrender would have resulted in a genocide equal to or greater than that experienced by Poland. Germany already had plans in place to exterminate the British leadership, intelligentsia, and military. Military age males were to be executed or sent as slave labor to Europe. Uselss mouths such as the elderly and infirm were to be liquidated in extermination concentration camps in Britain. females were to be liquidated in the extermination concentration camps, unless they were deemed to be useful for slave labor and Aryan breeding programs. The Royal Navy Fleet was to be used in the war Against the United States and its New World allies.
In the eevent of the loss of the Soviet Union and the occupation of Britain, the pre-war United States was already preparing to build an inter-continental bomber force. Some of the propased bases for this inter-continental bomber force were the Potuguese Azores, seized bases in North Africa, and/or captured Mediterranean island bases. The disparity in the ground forces was to be compensatedd by air supremacy, strategic bombing, and the atomic bomb weaponry.
That's interesting. Not just because it discusses the alternative strategy of dealing with Hitler, but it shows the complete and total lack of concern about what Japan was doing on he other side of the world. Totally ignoring a real threat until it slaps you across the face is as American as apple pie, I guess. The difference between the reactions to 12/07/41 and 09/11/01 is astounding, and it does not bode well for this country.
1941. Germany had lost the Battle of Britain and was not doing all that well on the seas either. I believe that Germany attacked the USSR because it couldn’t invade Britain any time soon. Had the USSR surrendered before December 1941 the US would not have entered the war, but Germany still wouldn’t have been strong enough to force surrender upon GB which still had the support of it’s Empire and the United States. I think the settlement would be that GB lifts it’s blockade of Germany and keeps it’s empire IOW: a stalemate. A triumphant Germany would not have made the same mistakes with Russia that it did in 1917.