Comments by "AFGuidesHD" (@AFGuidesHD) on "Why didn't the Germans just send up all their interceptors to stop the thousand bomber raids?" video.

Why didn't Germany just continue to fight the RAF instead of giving up during BoB ?
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@awitcher5303 Except they would still have had oil from their trade deal with USSR. So the whole "defeat Britain before invading USSR" seems like much better strategy for the Axis in hindsight.
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@AndreLuis-gw5ox TIK and "military history visualized" has the best video IMO which shows all the reasons laid out logically. People forget Germany declared war on the USA when German tanks were about 10 miles away from the Kremlin.
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@ssgus3682 That's mostly because the Germans barely even tried. The allies were in total war mode since 1939 whilst Germany didn't enter total war until 1943. Even in 1944 the Germans built 10s of thousands of aircraft. The LW performance in 1943 against the combined RAF and USAAF tells me that the LW could easily have defeated the RAF on its own had Germany not declared war on USA and entered total war in 1939 instead of 1943. BoB was a small skirmish compared to the defence of the reich.
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Indeed, Germany's plans in 1939 at most was a German-Polish war against the USSR and upon successful completion Germany would then demand the return of German colonies stolen after WW1. However of course the paranoid British believed that Germany "wanted to take over the world" after Germany seized.... Czechia. And Chamberlain subsequently stumbled whether maliciously or incompetently into a war which could have seen Germany actually dominate Eurafrasia rather than simply East Europe - a region which accounted for 2% of British trade.
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@71kimg you might want to rephrase that, I have no idea what you tried to say.
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"What if Hitler killed himself a day earlier" yeah nothing other than the deployment of Sarin gas will make much difference in 1945
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@71kimg Oh I see your point with Malta, but it must be remembered that the Luftwaffe since June 1941 was primarily operating thousands of their planes on the Eastern Front. Whilst the British RAF was entirely in the Mediterranean and over Britain (fighting whatever token raid the Germans sent over). I just find the idea that Germany couldn't defeat the RAF is a bit silly given the numerous quotes from RAF leaders saying it was extremely close in September 1940 and that the Luftwaffe subsequently fought on with thousands of planes on other fronts. The LW was only defeated by mid 1944 after being stretched across all fronts and of course Germany losing against USSR, USA and UK combined.
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@juanpaz5124 I wonder how Kesselring's plans for an airborne invasion in July 1940 would have faired. As we saw IOTL the Germans practically relied entirely on air force to capture create, a fortified island 100 miles wide and with 40,000 British troops against 20,000 Axis troops in total.
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@harryspeakup8452 Perhaps but Britain also had no means of defeating Germany. There was no way they could invade Europe without Germany conveniently declaring war on USSR and USA.
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@nottoday3817 at Khalkin Gol the soviets still lost double the men and like sextuple the tanks compared to the Japanese and the result was the status quo. So it wasn't exactly a crushing victory that should have scared the Germans.
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@ssgus3682 if the LW gained air supremacy over England then I don't see how an amphibious assault is even necessary. Air power can win on its own. There are few examples of naval power besting air power.
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@ssgus3682 "Air power on its own has only once ever brought an enemy to the peace table" And that's all the Germans aimed for. "the Allies still struggled to move inland." I think this was mostly due to supply issues. The Air superiority of the allies destroyed the Wehrmacht as Rommel reported to OKW. With Desert Storm the objective was to occupy Iraq whereas the Germans only sought to end hostilities with Britain.
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@bookaufman9643 There was no war in the east in 1940
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@JohnRodriguesPhotographer I think some of the Generals put forward an idea to invade England like they did Crete. Whereby airborne units capture key locations swiftly and basically the surprise would help them greatly. The whole debate around sealion is the air force and navy. There wasn't much of a British Army to face the Germans but equally the Germans would be constrained by supplies, so it's really difficult to wargame and obviously Moustache Man didn't much like the risk.
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@DanielB.-uv5ji Yeah hence why I said Sealion never happened. It depended heavily on gaining air superiority over England. Alot of people like to say the Royal Navy is far too superior of an opponent to overcome yet the evidence points towards it not being the case if one side has air superiority. In the vast majority (if not every) engagement where one side had air superiority then they won that battle. The pacific war is littered with examples. I see no reason why the RN wouldn't have also struggled to conduct operations in the channel if it was constantly harassed and attacked by aircraft based in Northern France. As we know the Luftwaffe didn't gain air superiority and as you say H man wasn't too keen or bothered about invading England anyway.
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