I Blame Communism
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Well, the fight between Germany and Russia is going to be pretty farily balanced since the former won't have any surprise factor and the latter won't have any US Lend-Lease. I would expect that Britain and France may be able to influence the balance of the war by giving the losing side their own version of the Lend-lease, and shutting it off it the reversal is excessive. And yes, they may still play the extreme card of direct intervention if either side threatens a total victory.
Have you given a minute's thought to the possible political consequences of doing this outside the war, of handing over sovereign military hardware to either of the regimes in question and the possible storm this could kick up? That states are not people (they are millions of people) seems to be something you won't acknowledge.
Then there's the great power logic, or lack thereof. We want Germany's bid for European domination and a colonial empire in the east defeated. Do we:
a) combine support for the Soviets which helps our own military effort with the said effort to defeat Germany and bring as much as Europe as possible under our influence and that of our allies, and secure a stake in the future world?
...or b) just chuck everything at the Soviets in the hope that they will helpfully stick up for all our interests for us, and explain to the Conservative back-bench and the voter why we couldn't be bothered actually growing a spine and opposing Germany but we are prepared to give Stalin all the goodies, and at the same time fervently hope that the Germans don't win?
... or c) just up and start sponsoring Hitler for no adequately explained reason?
Not at all. We have a fiarly extensive amount of info about Hitler's plans, and as much as the man managed to have some coherent ones, everything points out to the fact that he meant to leave the Western powers alone if they had left him alone to do his thing in Eastern Europe.
You're probably referring to his book written in the 1920s. Since that time, 1938 being the decisive moment, Germany had managed to get into an arms-race-by-proxy with the United States, with the western Europeans the ones to benefit from America's industrial power.
Why else wage war on them without a clear idea of how to gain victory? There was nothing to gain by waiting, as the phrase goes. They had to somehow knock out the Entente if they were going to conquer eastern Europe without being bombed to bits.
Well, I heartily disagree with the premise that the USSR was the smaller threat, except as it concers geographic proximity. IMO the choice between Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia was like the one between a serial killer that cuts the throats of his victims and another that poisons them.
So what exactly was the Stalinist USSR going to do do the Entente in the 1930s? Moon them?