There’s a lot of truth in that. He slept till 11, lunched from 1 to 3, and spent all evening holding forth for his dinner guests until after midnight. The guy was a bohemian and liked to work about as much.
His speech making was his only asset but it was enough that those those around him free to “follow the Fuhrer” and implement his devastating policies.
I mean really, declaring war on the USA? That had to be the biggest unforced error in the entire war.
The US was poised to not declare war on Germany. The focus of our anger was Japan. Supplies to the UK would stop because we would need them to fight Japan. The UK would have fallen, not easily but it would have gone down.
Whether we would have beaten Japan by ourselves with out using the British Empire for bases and their intelligence network is a good question. Probably. But it would have been harder.
So he gets exactly what he wants by staying out of it.
But what does he do? Declared he will support his good ally Japan by going to war with the US as well.
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Japan was competition. They firmly believed they were the superior humans on the planet. They had been at the conquest and colonization game for almost 70 years at that point and they were good at it.
A weakened Japan with an ascendant Germany was the ideal outcome. And it was quite possible to just sit this one out. Japan never declared war on the USSR and the USSR did not declare war on them until the last moment when they thought they could make a grab for the goodies.
At worse he could have had a couple of years to unite Europe and then come to Japan's rescue if it looked like they were going down.
Or just let them fall and let a tired and beat up US decide Europe and Africa were not worth it.