So, its may 1941 and you are the Fuhrer of Germany

That's right, it will fit better in the Alternative History Sub-forum, so if there aren't any objections I'm going to move it there.

Done.

Originally posted by Don Quixote Originally posted by Sylla1 Contrary to common misconception and after reviewing the contemporary weather conditions, Col. David Glantz concluded that Barbarossa was not feasible previous to late June as historically happened, in spite of the Balkan campaign. Thank you for this detailed and wide-scoped summary of the situation at the time, Sylla1.

Glad it might be useful, DQ

Back to the OP, time was still working against the III Reich, even without the Soviet Union; the British Empire controlled like one fifth of the population of the world, more than half billion people; along WW2 the UK alone mobilized some 6,500,000 men, and the Empire as a whole some 12,000,000; the European Axis had a greater industrial capacity (like 50% more steel produced) byt such advantage was vastly overcompensated by the US producing already backing Britain; its full involvement in the war was just a matter of time.
Not to mention the help of other colonial empires (especially the French) and the resources from neutral nations (inaccessible for the European Axis).
And of course, the Soviet Union (in spite of any diplomacy, still the natural enemy of the Nazism) was a proverbial Damocles' Sword perennially at the back of the Reich.
The radicalization of the war, the harsh German rule over the conquered populations and the brutal persecution of the Jewish and Slavic populations had already made any possibility of a negotiated peace extremely unlikely.