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just to clarify...are you asking if the soviets were not involved could the western allies with their air forces have beaten the reich? Or are you asking if the western allies just using their air power alone...no ground forces could have beaten the reich?
davebender said:Something like 80% of the German war effort fought on the Russian front. Without the German-Russian war the Luftwaffe would be mostly deployed in the west and they would have a lot more aircraft without the need to maintain 150+ divisions in eastern front combat. The so called "Battle of Britain" would continue for the entire duration of the war with ever increasing numbers of German aircraft. Meanwhile RAF Bomber Command would bomb Europe for the entire duration of the war just as happened historically.
gjs238 said:After you read Mein Kampf this scenario doesn't seem very plausible.
The whole purpose of this venture was eastward expansion for Lebensraum.
What are the Soviets doing in this scenario?
bobbysocks said:in this senario does the us still get bombed by japan? if NO, then it would remain to be seen how long the US would sit on its hands before getting involved.
Could the Allies defeat Germany only with air power?
No.
MM
EnglandSo who gets bombed to rubble first?
I just don't see any way the Allies could have won without the Russians, and it would have been over before we could have developed any atomic capability.
England
Imo the only way the west would have won without the Russians would have been played out the same way as the war in the pacific... with a nuclear waepon. OR perhaps more resources to fight the war in Europe would have taken from the Pacific. The US was a manufacturing megamachine back then.. but there are limits.i think the war would have been possible to win with out russia....the cost though would have been staggering in both men and materials