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Originally Posted by ryanglavin
I'm theoretically saying, once Germany defeated Britain, they'd just pound the U.S. into dust.
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How? They had no naval fleet to match the U.S. So a land based invasion is out. Besides, where would they get the troops? Assuming they were still tied up in the East, they just did not have the divisions to fight a country the size of the U.S. and Russia at the same time. And even if they did, they didn't have the transport space to get them across the Atlantic. They had no airpower with the range to reach the U.S. The U-boats couldn't have done it alone - the U.S. had the ability to move materials overland and did not have to rely as much on sea lanes as the Brits did.
The U.S. would have either had to invade through Africa instead of using England as a jumping off point, or, they would have sued for peace. Considering the amount of planning, preparation and everything else that went into planning an invasion just across the English Channel, I think planning one across the entire Atlantic Ocean would have been logistically impossible at that point.