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Guns_of_Verdun posted...

You can't just teleport 80% of your forces into London. The logisitics of getting that force across all of Europe during a time of severely limited resources is insane and would take an extended period of perperation and exeuction

I was thinking more in terms of what might have happened if the western Allies had somehow taken leave of their senses and attempted to storm "Fortress Europe" if the war on the Eastern Front hadn't been sucking German resources into a black hole.

If, for example, Stalin had wisely decided to watch and wait for a while longer (IIRC, the Soviet army had embarked on a massive, long-term program of reconstruction and reform after 1937 which was disrupted by Barbarossa) as the Germans remained in occupation in France and the Low Countries while the Nazi-Soviet pact still held together, however shaky.

(Although I suspect Germany would still have struck first against the Soviet Union sooner or later, and I think the flashpoint might have been Romania. Around two-thirds of Germany's oil imports came from Romania; the lifeblood of the German war machine was pumped from the oilfields of Ploesti. After June 1940, when the USSR annexed Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, worries about further Soviet encroachment on Romanian territory must have kept German war planners awake at night.)