so all of you say that a German victory in the Ardennes won't affect the war at all? no problems with the forces in Flandern and Holland surrounded and the loss of a strategically important city like Antwerp? I think that a victory of the Germans would've greatly influence the allies. Panic could break because of a second defeat in less than a half year. and even worse; there could be even greater tensions between the Americans and the Brits. even in real life Ike, Patton and Monty where arguing amongst each other. and if this would've happened the soviets capture the whole of Germany and the north of the Netherland, perhaps even the southern Netherlands and Belgium; which results in a Communist Northern Europe. Maybe farfetched but still...
Not at all. If the Germans managed to win at the Bulge,there would have been one of two results.
1. The Red Army gains more ground in Germany, perhaps ensuring that political leaders less embracing of the West are the ones left in charge when the occupation begins. This might alter the course of post-war Germany with minor spin off effects on NATO (this is very unlikely, but possible). Overall, no big deal. The agreement on the post-war occupation zones was already in place, and Stalin had a surprisingly good record on honoring the broad strokes of such agreements.
2. The German Army, exposed on ground it had already demonstrated it couldn't hold against the Allies when it had three YEARS to prepare, is torn to shreds by Jagerbombers and the overwhelming combat power that the Allies can bring to bear, leaving fewer men to hold the Rhine barrier. As a result the Allies cross into Germany using the southern route (that was abandonned IOTL because of the successes up North) as well as the Northern one. The Allies stop roughly 30 miles from Berlin (likely resulting in Patton being relieved for gross insubordination) and allow the Red Army the glory (and 100,000 casualties) from taking Berlin. Allied forces manage to scoop up a few more trinkets (V-2's, Me-262's, etc.) since they have taken a bt more ground. Overall the Soviets are delayed a few months in developing the MiG-15 and their early rocket program. No big deal.
Overall the Bulge Offensive was asinine. Even a maximum victory meant nothing in the long run. There was no chance of a serious rift between the U.S. & the UK, whatever Hitler (and the History Channel) imagined. Mongomery might have pushed his luck & demanded he be given overall Allied command (which had less than zero chance of happening) and wind up getting replaced by Wavell or Brooke, although Monty was almost certainly far too politically astute to push that particular issue.
The units that the Wermacht & Waffen SS lost in the Ardennes could have delayed the Red Army for a few weeks, perhaps even a month, & allowed tens of thousands more German civilians to escape the tender mercies of the NKVD and certain elements of the Red Army by crossing into the Western Occupation Zones. That would have been a far better use for the troops that were thrown away in Operation Wacht am Rhein.