And London, and Moscow. Glad the Japs only bombed us at Pearl. lol
I assume you mean the Germans would have taken the UK out if we had a Pacific First strategy.
I disagree, as I think even with a Pacific First strategy we would have kept enough resources flowing to UK to prevent its fall. Its strategic value as an unsinkable aircraft carrier and base is just too obvious. Could have been designed for the purpose.
OTOH, I tend to agree that USSR would likely have collapsed, or at least been driven beyond the Urals. If so, it becomes highly unlikely, IMO, that UK and US could have successfully invaded Europe without the Eastern Front absorbing the majority of German and allied forces.
IOW, I don’t think D-Day would have happened, and if we’d tried it would have been a disaster.
All this would have only postponed the inevitable, of course and August of 1945 would still have ended in the surrender of both Germany and Japan. Little bit later, possibly, in order to stockpile more Bombs before using them.
What is a really insteresting alternate history flows from the fact, little known in USA, that Hitler declared war on us, not USA on Germany. He was under no obligation to do so, and why he made the decision will never be known. Had he not done so, it is entirely possible we might have been at war with Japan and at peace with Germany for some time, although that “peace” would have been largely theoretical.