IIRC, Hitler really did not want war with Britain, if anything he respected the British Empire and did not want war with them, but of course, he wanted the Danzig corridor
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I've heard of Pat before, but never read anything by him until now, and alas, he's obviously still under the belief that the Polish attacked Gleiwitz...
Hitler did want the war to end in 1940, he wanted to secure his flanks now that he had his bridgehead to strike the Soviet Union, he wanted to make sure that Britain would leave him alone, and as Britain so the US. He viewed the Bolsheviks as uncultured barbarians and it was inevitable that some point down the line Stalin and Hitler would go to war.
He did his best to break Britain, but his real goal was Russia.
So, Pat is partially right but for all the wrong reasons, and it's a damn good thing that we didn't stop fighting in 1940, who knows how things would have turned out? A successful Barbarossa perhaps? Then of course, after Barbarossa would come a possible campaign against the United States and the UK from a strengthened German perspective.
Alternate history is interesting
