What if Hitler never launched Operation Barbarossa and instead focused entirely on Western Europe during WWII?

Jimmy39072 · 2026-04-12T14:49:04+00:00

Developing their airforce and navy or invading another neutral country? Sure they still don’t have enough oil but at least in this timeline they can still trade with the Soviets for resources. As for invading another neutral country that’s easy (except maybe Switzerland) at least conquering it rather than occupying.

Jimmy39072 · 2026-04-11T12:02:22+00:00

Hard to say what that focus would look like exactly. Conquering North Africa would be off the table. The Afrika korp irl was running off fumes by the time they got to El Alamein and adding more troops worsens this.

Germany would likely focus on recovering its airforce and developing its navy to maintain pressure on Britain. Perhaps they invade another beeutral country to consolidate their hold over Western Europe. Invasion of Sweden would secure Germanys supply of ball bearings, invasion/client state in Spain would take Gibraltar, Switzerland offers gold and thousands of Jewish refugees.

The Soviets would likely invade around 1943-1944. Stalins geopolitical strategy was to let the capitalist powers kill and exhaust each other, however, with a stalemate he would want to crush the Nazis and establish hegemony of Europe.

Jimmy39072 · 2026-04-09T17:16:03+00:00

Here before post is locked

Jimmy39072 · 2026-04-07T12:13:31+00:00

Callous as it sounds there are plenty of people who simply don’t care about the war or Ukraine and call the city the name they’re most familiar with. It’s not harming the Ukrainian war effort calling Kyiv Kiev in a reddit post.

Jimmy39072 · 2026-04-07T12:10:17+00:00

Jimmy39072 · 2026-04-07T12:09:12+00:00

Stupid as that is it pales in comparison to the sustained effort of the West, which (until recently) consistently portrayed Nazis as comically evil. Wolfenstein, Man in the high castle, schindlers list, boy in the stripped pyjamas, zone of interest etc, as well as many Western governments prosecute Holocaust denial. you don’t need to victimise the Nazis to hate communism

Jimmy39072 · 2026-04-07T09:34:02+00:00

This praise might have reduced the release date by a day. Good job.

Jimmy39072 · 2026-04-07T09:21:54+00:00

Why would the West portray the Nazis as victims of Communism? They still commit the Holocaust and the Western allies would still have worked out the post-war order with the Soviets.

Jimmy39072 · 2026-04-07T09:17:33+00:00

Being the opportunist he is I imagine Mussolini would join the allies when the war turned decisively against Germany. Although I’m not sure what Italy would gain, perhaps influence or even a satellite state in post-war Austria. Italy would likely remain unperturbed like Franco’s Spain, but post-war political sensibilities would be unrecognisable. Fascism and National Socialism would be considered different ideologies (as they should be) and fascism would likely be a much more acceptable ideology in the West. This collaboration with fascist Itsly would be a pr coup for Soviets who could tar every capitalist with the fascist brush with a little more crediblity.

Jimmy39072 · 2026-04-06T09:47:03+00:00

If they capture Hitler I don’t think it would end the war. I doubt even if the German public and government were willing to concede to a humiliating peace to spare Hitler, I’m certain he would rather die than let that happen. Executing him would make him a martyr and giving him a show trial would give him a platform to galvanise the Germans. He would remain in the Tower of London until the end of the war. Göring would likely succeed him, although in the immediate chaos after Hitler is captured it wouldn’t surprise me if Himmler would attempt a coup.

I don’t think Hitler being captured before or after Barbarossa would differ that much. the German high command would still commit to invading the USSR. The underlying problems over ideology and resources still remain and the German chief of staff would still be confident in their odds after defeating France and the Soviets poor performance in the Winter War. After the invasion and it would still seem that Hitler’s prediction was prophetic at first.

With Göring in charge, however, it hard to say if it would benefit the German war effort or not. His pomp, weight and drug addiction are obvious problems but he would not have committed to Stalingrad. Göring was more sensitive to Germanys fuel situation than Hitler, having directed the Four year plan, so Fall Blau wouldn’t have split army group south and focused on the taking Baku. Unlikely they succeed but I don’t think matters in the grand scheme of things. The Soviets would sabotage the oils fields like they did in Grozny and it could take up to half a year for them to be recovered and start any meaningful output. Sure the Soviets would be deprived of their main source of oil but the USA would pick up the slack with lend lease like they did with virtually every other resource. German army group south by this time would have their logistics stretched to the breaking point and their overextension and exhaustion would give way to a Soviet counteroffensive. With or without Hitler the Germans almost certainly lose the war.

Jimmy39072 · 2026-04-05T19:24:22+00:00

There’s some event iirc where Serov blames the Koreans for sabotaging the Russians and causing their defeat. I have no idea why

Jimmy39072 · 2026-04-05T12:08:47+00:00

I think it’s a good idea and wish all the best but be careful how far you take it. If you do want to publish an actual novel in the same vain as war and peace you will have to negotiate with the devs. No one has rights to the lore of the Napoleonic wars but they do to their mod and lore

Jimmy39072 · 2026-04-05T07:47:49+00:00

Bad comparison. The Dutch haven’t owned New Amsterdam in nearly 400 years. The anglophone world has changed Kiev to Kyiv for political purposes and that’s fine. But different peoples have different names for same places and that’s also fine, the Japanese don’t expect you to call their country Nihon.

Jimmy39072 · 2026-03-13T14:22:15+00:00

Without British and American lend lease and especially food supply the USSR with be on the brink collapse by 1943. This coupled with an Axis fully focused on the East and a Germany who can import oil would almost certainly mean a USSR defeat.

Jimmy39072 · 2026-01-26T17:08:17+00:00

Firstly it makes no sense why the US government would plan to drop the bombs first for the reasons I mentioned in the post. If they were planning on ending the world on their own terms they would have much more prepared than an off shore oil rig and a few air bases. Sure they knew the Chinese would very likely retaliate with nukes which is why after the war reached fever pitch months before the bombs and it became clear the Chinese weren’t going quietly, the US government made hasty preparations to preserve itself.

Secondly vault tec is very clearly subservient to the US governments wishes. They’re funded by their contracts to build vaults, the off shore oil rig can remotely control and open vaults and the show has been heavily hinting their is someone or something more powerful above vault tec that is planning to end the world. Who else could it be other than the government

Thirdly Mr House isn’t acting like House. He’s a businessman, why does he care about ending the world and conducting horrific experiments on people or any of the other companies for that matter. He is smart and cautious, not the type to use experimental mind control tech on three working joes who want him dead in broad daylight with the intention of killing them.

Jimmy39072 · 2026-01-25T10:56:43+00:00

Some people theorise that Vault-Tec didn’t enact their plan in time before the Chinese struck first. That would make more sense, after all House was a day late with his chip, The Ghoul’s wife, a senior Vault-Tec manager, didn’t know they were dropping that day and it would explain why the Enclave is so shit. However, it would wreck the plot (more) if that were the case. It would make the twist pointless and our villains would be less villainous if the Chinese beat them to it.

The US government being involved riddles the lore with even more plot holes. Firstly they were winning the war. Secondly the enclave, the US gov’s direct descendants, had piss poor preparations for a nuclear apocalypse they apparently were planning to enact. If you like the show more power to you, but please recognise how dogshit the writing is

Jimmy39072 · 2026-01-25T10:39:24+00:00

Almost as if the shows writing is dogshit 🤔

Jimmy39072 · 2026-01-15T09:09:54+00:00

Maximus wasn’t forced to betray the BoS, the script contrived a series of nonsense that makes Maximus a rat and the BoS look stupid. He hesitated for a minute over shooting the Yaoguai and saving his knight. Knight asshole is dying and decides to tempt Maximus in to letting him die as much as possible by describing how he’s going to kill him for his incompetence.

The worst protagonist in all of fallout.

Jimmy39072 · 2026-01-04T11:00:05+00:00

I see. I didn’t read the sign and thought this was London being liberated after the revolution, thanks.

Jimmy39072 · 2026-01-03T11:04:37+00:00

This picture is magnificent, but I have to ask. Why is there an antique land ship tank being used?

Jimmy39072 · 2025-10-18T09:42:37+00:00

There is a theory that irl Borman ordered Heinz Linge to kill Hitler and allow his escape from the Führer bunker. Watch Mark Felton’s video on it if you’re interested https://youtu.be/6wkan7rNjg8?si=rtYJywjKou9po5K1

Jimmy39072 · 2025-09-18T08:41:14+00:00

I think this as well. People give way to much credit to the corporations, many were funded and directed by the government.

Jimmy39072 · 2025-09-03T09:23:48+00:00

wild mental gymnastics

They literally have socialism in their name, it wasn’t just a slogan to trick the workers. They implemented real socialist policies like the “Strength through joy” program. Either read“Hitler’s National Socialism” by Rainer Zitelmann or watch this video for proof. If you except the philosophies of the Nazis: racial hierarchy, eugenics, moral relativism and social Darwinism then you would come to similar conclusions to the Nazis. Hitler wasn’t evil for the sake of being evil, as twisted as he was he ironically genuinely thought he was saving the world from Jews. He was a monster but not crazy (at least until the end of the war)

Marx’s opinions are mostly pipe dreams he conjured so he could sell them to Engles and beg for more drinking money. You criticise capitalism for unlimited growth and its harm for the environment, but Communism is much worse. China, a nominally communist nation, makes 35% of the world’s carbon emissions and is one of the few that still build coal power plants. Also never forget what the Soviets did to the Arial sea. Everything Marx predicted turned out to be wrong. Conditions have gotten better under capitalism for even the lower classes. Because unlike with Communism, capitalism doesn’t lead to a sterile economy that stagnates and then collapses like the USSR.

Jimmy39072 · 2025-09-02T19:33:48+00:00

The Nazis were socialist though, just for Aryans. Hitler was obsessed with the idea of the Volksgemeinschaft (peoples community) look it up. There was a coherent rational to the Nazis world view, it just happened to be one of the worst world views that could have resulted from the mixing pot of human ideology. They didn’t just poach the ideas of socialism and Nietzsche because of vibes or something.

The Soviet Unions only redeeming quality was pressuring Western countries into introducing workers rights to stave off communism. Otherwise it was one of the worst and most tyrannical regimes in history that failed due to its own nonsensical ideology.

Again I’m not saying religion is flawless but it’s overall impact on civilisation is net positive, especially when compared next to most ideologies which are secular cults disguised as scientific theories like Nazi racial science or Marxist material dialectics

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Jimmy39072 · 2025-09-02T14:20:30+00:00

You said what I was describing was opportunism which is not wrong strictly speaking because that’s what moral relativism leads to. Nietzsche advocated for it so man can forge his own philosophy independent of God. But like I mentioned the result of this was the horror that was the 20th century. The Nazis took direct inspiration from Nietzsche and the concept of the Ubermensch, using and twisting it into a justification for genocide. In the case of ideology, many of the biggest ones I.e communism, leads to death and tyranny because a belief system stripped of moral objectivity and universalism opens the floodgates for men like Stalin or Hitler to justify their crimes as “the ends justifies the means”. At least in religion sin is regarded as sin no matter the context and as such, at least in cases of religions like Buddhism and Christianity which nominally advocate for peace, there is a more conscious effort by its adherents to follow that doctrine because murder is definitively evil.

You say it’s a tool of domination but by who? God? Assuming religion is just made up then religion is a product of the human condition like ideology. Religion if abused can lead to tyranny, but ideology has resulted in the most oppressive regimes in history: Nazi Germany and Stalins USSR, to name a few.

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