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It's interesting to suppose what might have become of Hitler had he not invaded the USSR.  (That of course was his whole reason for being, so it's illogical in a way.)

With fairly modest effort, he could have reinforced the Afrika Korps to the point it would have driven the British out of the Med.  That would have opened up the oil fields for the taking.  He was getting raw materials from Stalin in significant quantities.  He had the Baltic locked up.  He probably could have starved GB to the point Churchill would have lost favor.  The Third Reich might be there today.

It is also interesting to ponder whether the US could have help win that war (with the UK) on its own, without the USSR involved on that front. I mean, a lot of resources were spent winning the war in the Pacific.

Would the US have used "the bomb" to beat Hitler, without USSR involved? I think probably not. But maybe??

We wouldn't have been able to successfully land in Normandy in 1944 without the Soviet Union in the war.  But we eventually could have worn down Germany's air defenses, and, if necessary, used the atomic bomb on Germany.  That was the target in everyone's mind when the Manhattan Project was approved.

We probably would have had to devote fewer resources to the Pacific.  Had it be a true holding campaign rather than a counteroffensive starting in August 1942 in the Solomons.

Tokyo had by then been pretty much wiped out by firebombing, Badge.  With more loss of life than Hiroshima suffered.

Tokyo had by then been pretty much wiped out by firebombing, Badge.  With more loss of life than Hiroshima suffered.

But not leveled, right? Wouldn't many more have died had they dropped it there?

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Gotcha.

I need to learn more about what went down in the Pacific, obviously. I mean, I know about Pearl Harbor (who doesn't) and MacArthur's slow march through the islands to recapture the Philippines, but not much else. I guess I've concentrated too much on what went down in Europe.

And the Atlantic Charter before that(1939?).US Ships were sailing under British Flags.Probably broke some international law but it wasn't like the Reich wasn't getting jiggy with them already

Atlantic Charter was August 1941, at the end of the FDR-Churchill meeting aboard the battleship HMS Prince of Wales (survivor of the Battle of the Denmark Straits vs. Bismarck) at Placentia Bay, Newfoundland.
I don't know about U.S. ships sailing under British flags.  But after we started with Lend-Lease shipments, we began using the U.S. Navy to escort them halfway across the Atlantic, at which point the Royal Navy picked them up and escorted them the rest of the way.  Certainly violated the international agreement (that had been violated so often by all parties during WWI) regarding the behavior of neutrals.  We hadn't declared war, but we weren't neutral by that point.
Epilogue: Prince of Wales, along with battle-cruiser HMS Repulse, would be sunk off the coast of Malaya almost exactly four months later on 10 Dec 1941.  They were the first two capital ships to be sunk totally by air attack.