re: In hindsight was it a mistake for the US to ally with the Soviet Union during WW2.

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How old are you?

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This hardly matters.

You asserted that if it wasn't for the Soviet Union, we'd all be speaking German. This ignores political and military realities from that era. Hitler had no desire whatsoever to conquer Great Britain or the United States. In fact, Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf that he respected the British Empire and believed that it was a stabilizing force in the world. If those 335,000 British and French soldiers are captured instead of evacuated at Dunkirk, worst case scenario for the Allies is that Hitler makes peace with the British and allows them to keep their empire.

But let's say for argument's sake that England is forced to unconditionally surrender and give up their sovereignty to Nazi Germany. Let's then say for argument's sake that the Germans handle the Soviet Union and then turn their sights on the United States. Guess what? The Kriegsmarine's naval doctrine from 1939 onward was based almost entirely on commerce raiding. That means more U-Boats and fewer surface vessels, with almost no troop transports and no aircraft carriers to speak of.

How do you transport an invasion force across the broad expanse of the Atlantic Ocean if you are Germany? Not only do you have the U.S. Navy to deal with (which even in 1939 was bigger and more formidable than the Kriegsmarine), but you also have the remnants of the Royal Navy fighting it in this hypothetical scenario as they aren't just going to up and surrender their navy in the event of a British surrender. They would have most likely taken to sea and interred in the United States.

It seems we wanted them to be a pit bull, and we made them into a male lion.

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This hardly matters.

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Obviously it does

Hitler had the Royal Family snowed, not Churchill. They said Windsor abdicated for Wallace but the reality is he was a Nazi sympathizer and the Empire took him out gracefully in the public eye. This is not some revisionist history but from folks who raised me and lived through it.

If you are so sure Hitler was OK leaving England alone, perhaps you never heard of Operation Sea Lion?

In September 1939, the successful German invasion of Poland infringed on both a French and a British alliance with Poland and both countries declared war on Germany. On 9 October, Hitler's "Directive No. 6 for the Conduct of the War" planned an offensive to defeat these allies and "win as much territory as possible in Holland, Belgium, and northern France to serve as a base for the successful prosecution of the air and sea war against England".

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without the Russians we would all be speaking German now.

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QFT.

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In hindsight was it a mistake for the US to ally with the Soviet Union during WW2.

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what an awful fricking take

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In fact he couldn’t cross the English Channel to invade England.

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Did you live through this time?


Had Hitler waited to invade Russia till after he had finished off England he would have had only 1 front to fight on. The weather allowed Dunkirk to be successful and Hitler was not the military genius. Germans were well ahead in technology while the rest of the world was fighting with WW I technology and equipment.

Play armchair QB here for a moment and imagine Hitler makes the smart moves


#1 Invades Poland and stops on that front
#2 Eliminates France
#3 Takes North Africa (and the Middle East) - securing oil
#4 Takes England (British had no oil, BP was their oil in Africa / Middle East)

America was isolationist and Henry Ford was a fan of Hitler's

Hitler secures oil in the European / African sphere (continents)
Japan secures oil in the Asian sphere (South China Seas / Royal Dutch Shell oil)

You have 4 spheres of oil by then

Nazi = Europe & Africa (Total / France & BP / English are now German)
Communist = Russia (self sustaining)
Japan = South China Seas
Americas = North America (US + CAN) and Central + South America

#5 Germany invades Russia on a single front, Japan invades Russia on a single front

At that point how long before Germany takes the Americas and with just 2 left, how long before they turn on Japan.


Keep in mind the Germans were ahead on ...
Jets
Rockets
Nuclear weapons

While we crow about the Stealth Bomber, the Germans had the Horten Ho 229 on the drawing boards at the start of WW II

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Germany wasn’t going to invade the US and impose their culture on the US.

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how can you say that? if germany takes over europe and japan takes asia, you dont think thats a possibility?

ETA: lack of oil resources is one major factors that crushed the nazis/blitz, if they take russia/the balkans, they have all the oil they would want/could handle.

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perhaps you never heard of Operation Sea Lion?

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I have heard of Operation Sea Lion and this just goes to show you the impossibility of a successful invasion of the United States by Nazi Germany. Hitler's invasion fleet couldn't get their shite together when the enemy's beaches were less than 60 miles away across the English Channel. Think about the logistical nightmare preparations for a hypothetical transoceanic invasion of the United States would have been.

A German invasion of the U.S. would have never succeeded.

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They said Windsor abdicated for Wallace but the reality is he was a Nazi sympathizer and the Empire took him out gracefully in the public eye. This is not some revisionist history but from folks who raised me and lived through it.

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This ain't got shite to do with shite.

Should have let Germany & Russia bloody each other and then attacked the winner after we were finished with Japan.