Fleet speculates that a German defeat of the Soviet Union followed by a Western Allied victory over Germany might have avoided the Cold War. Alex questions what government would replace Stalin's regime, leaving the political outcome unresolved. He also challenges the assumption that German logistics could sustain a campaign far enough to defeat the Soviet Union. Fleet concedes that physical limit. The exchange leaves both the proposed military sequence and the hoped-for postwar outcome in doubt.
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German supply limits complicate a Soviet-collapse counterfactual
A proposed German victory over the Soviet Union meets objections about supply capacity and the unknown successor to Stalin's government.