Is this best case scenario for Germany where Stalin dies at Moscow in 1941, the USSR split into warlords/ethnicities/republics and the US is truly neutral, as in no lend and lease at all? Germany crushes, the UK simply can't pay the war effort any longer.
Assuming the US keeps supplying Britian, I think its a toss up if the German Empire collapse after Hitler's death or not, which is nigh. To be frank I don't see Britain countrinuing the war at all if the USSR collapses in 1941 and the US remains neutral. It is going to be War Cabinet Crisis 2 and it will be way worse than the first one over France.
Again, let's remember Churchill told Halifax that he would be willing to make a peace giving Germany overlordship over central Europe in exchange of a ceasefire as long as rearm limitations were not put on Britain, Churchill considered said terms to be extremely generous and I even recall reading Churchill said he would even be willing to cede British territory to the reich, I think at times people don't appreciate just how close Britain was to peace with Hitler and it could had taken anything to tip the balance in the peace faction favor, a distaster at Dunkirk, Hitler making a bold formal public proposition on worldwide news for peace in the terms Churchill told Halifax he would accept, etc.
So here we have Britain alone again in the continent, with the only country in the continent that could had countered Germany in the continent defeated. This would certainly lead to another war cabinet crisis, also even Churchill banked on "the new world with all its industrial might" coming to the rescue, even he had no apetite or hopes Britain would defeat Germany alone, at some point the fact that the USA is not going to participate in the war is going to become evident and negotiations will ensue.
Assuming the US keeps supplying Britian, I think its a toss up if the German Empire collapse after Hitler's death or not, which is nigh. To be frank I don't see Britain countrinuing the war at all if the USSR collapses in 1941 and the US remains neutral. It is going to be War Cabinet Crisis 2 and it will be way worse than the first one over France.
Again, let's remember Churchill told Halifax that he would be willing to make a peace giving Germany overlordship over central Europe in exchange of a ceasefire as long as rearm limitations were not put on Britain, Churchill considered said terms to be extremely generous and I even recall reading Churchill said he would even be willing to cede British territory to the reich, I think at times people don't appreciate just how close Britain was to peace with Hitler and it could had taken anything to tip the balance in the peace faction favor, a distaster at Dunkirk, Hitler making a bold formal public proposition on worldwide news for peace in the terms Churchill told Halifax he would accept, etc.
So here we have Britain alone again in the continent, with the only country in the continent that could had countered Germany in the continent defeated. This would certainly lead to another war cabinet crisis, also even Churchill banked on "the new world with all its industrial might" coming to the rescue, even he had no apetite or hopes Britain would defeat Germany alone, at some point the fact that the USA is not going to participate in the war is going to become evident and negotiations will ensue.