nonetheless with most of the mediterranean coast under german, italian or puppet state control the british postion in gibralter would be severly weakened
and if the germans really wanted they could simply strong arm the vichy in granting bases in north africa the vichy werent exactly in a postion to deny the germans
and you know your history well sir
also i should point out that this scenario takes place with germany having not declared war on russia which was the logical thing to do stalin was much to paranoid to make the first move against germany