Appeasement Continued (Chapter 1 Chamberlains way)

IOTL, French and British declaration of war over the invasion of Poland pretty much caught Hitler (and not just him) flat-footed. More so, the order of it, Britain declaring war first and France following later.

You can hardly compare Poland to the Soviet Union, Poland would likely collapse in weeks. The USSR on the other hand, even f the Red Army completely collapsed would take months to defeat and as Stalin is going to much more expecting of a German attack it's very likely the Red Army will actually do much better rather than worse.

In other words attacking the Soviet Union with France and Britain unharmed is even more suicidal than attacking the Soviet Union with Britain handicapped.
 
You can hardly compare Poland to the Soviet Union, Poland would likely collapse in weeks. The USSR on the other hand, even f the Red Army completely collapsed would take months to defeat and as Stalin is going to much more expecting of a German attack it's very likely the Red Army will actually do much better rather than worse.

In other words attacking the Soviet Union with France and Britain unharmed is even more suicidal than attacking the Soviet Union with Britain handicapped.


France and the UK still feared the West Wall and getting engaged in position warfar in general. The UK IOTL estimated that the Soviet-Union would collapse in 6 weeks, which is pretty close to the German estimate of 4 weeks.
Thus, if France and the UK does declare war over a German attack on the Soviet-Union in spring 1940, their offensive would most probably start in spring 1942.
 
France and the UK still feared the West Wall and getting engaged in position warfar in general. The UK IOTL estimated that the Soviet-Union would collapse in 6 weeks, which is pretty close to the German estimate of 4 weeks.
Thus, if France and the UK does declare war over a German attack on the Soviet-Union in spring 1940, their offensive would most probably start in spring 1942.

By 1941, the French would outnumber the Germans let alone the British. They would most likely attack then. The Germans in having to keep much more substantial forces in the west as well as having to produce much more of their own trucks would only be able to launch a greatly weakened attack on the Soviet Union one which would fail miserably much sooner than OTL Barbarossa and sooner too, which gives the Allies even greater incentive to come in and crush Germany once and for all before the Soviets reach the Rhine.

Also the UK had no estimate for the collapse of the Soviet Union, merely wild predictions. Actually much of the British military were supried the Soviets did so badly.
 
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