I see that Herr Ribbentrop has clarified Germany’s war aims to Undersecretary Welles:
1. The end of British “plutocracy” and
2. The end of British naval domination of the seas.
Well, knowing how things turned out, it seems to me that by those definitions, the Germans wound up accomplishing their war aims. In other words, they were really the winners of WW2! (if you can leave out those pesky “unintended consequences” of course).
Kind of falls under “be careful what you wish for” doesn’t it.
One step beyond Pyrric victory?
Reading about the sub attack near Puerto Rico makes me wonder why the US and Germany didn’t go to war right then and there.