Definitely, the Battle of the Bulge was a desperate gamble by Hitler, and probably brought the war to an end a year earlier than it might otherwise have been. Of course, there are those who argue that the Rhine wasn’t much of a barrier if the Channel wasn’t, but staging the cross-channel invasion took place more or less out of sight.
The Compost blogger should be publicly reprimanded, forced to post a retraction and refutation of his own hit piece, then kicked off their site for life.