Probably when it invaded the USSR. I'm not gonna do the meme and say it's impossible to invade Russia, but trying to invade Russia while pursuing a grinding war with a US-armed Britain (and the increasing likelihood that the US was going to intervene eventually, was always going to be a recipe for disaster. Hitler's best bet was always going to be to wait out the UK until they broke and negotiated a separate peace. Then if he really wanted to stick it to Stalin he should probably have waited at least a few years to consolidate his hold over continental Europe and rebuild his strength. Of course even then it would have been a tall order, but at least he wouldn't have forced himself into the situation that even the Kaiserreich was desperately trying to avoid in 1914.
Thank goodness for evil's self-defeating nature.
I mean invading the USSR though was the entire goal of the war to begin with , not defeating the UK . So I don’t get the what ifs behind what if the Nazis didn’t invade the USSR because in that case they would not be Nazis to begin with .
good thing I said this then
He couldn't wait though, for economic reasons. He needed the resources of the Soviet Union and he needed their oil.
He also couldn't really defeat England during any reasonable amount of time that he might have waited.
Its a similar dynamic that Napoleon found himself in. He couldn't defeat England directly, Russia couldn't afford to not trade with England and Napoleon couldn't defeat England without adherence to the continental system.
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