Invading Russia before he had pushed England to make peace, and invading Russia in the fall, then splitting his forces and not capturing Moscow. Germany likely could not have done an amphibious assault of England, but could have gotten them eventually to settle for an uneasy peace like Napoleon had done.
Then there was declaring war on the US. Remember, the Soviet Union was at war with Germany as an ally of England and the US, but it was not at war against Japan until the very end. You could have had a situation where the US was at war with Japan and suppling materials and arms to England, but without direct US warfighting with Germany which soon entailed in N. Africa and then Italy in 1942-43 after Germany declared war on the US.
A lot of people say that Operation Barbarossa, Germany's surprise attack on the Soviet Union was pre-emptive of the Soviets going to eventually attack them anyway. The record of Stalin's intentions in this regard are not clear, but if they were going to attack Germany, it probably wouldn't have been prior to Germany forcing a peace on England.
Of course, counter-factuals scenarios always have rebuttals, and the only thing we can go on in big historical events is what actually happened, but rebuttals can be weak or strong.
Invading Russia before he had pushed England to make peace, and invading Russia in the fall, then splitting his forces and not capturing Moscow. Germany likely could not have done an amphibious assault of England, but could have gotten them eventually to settle for an uneasy peace like Napoleon had done.
Then there was declaring war on the US. Remember, the Soviet Union was at war with Germany as an ally of England and the US, but it was not at war against Japan until the very end. You could have had a situation where the US was at war with Japan and suppling materials and arms to England, but without direct US warfighting with Germany which soon entailed in N. Africa and then Italy in 1942-43 after Germany declared war on the US.
A lot of people say that Operation Barbarossa, Germany's surprise attack on the Soviet Union was pre-emptive of the Soviets going to eventually attack them anyway. The record of Stalin's intentions in this regard are not clear, but if they were going to attack Germany, it probably wouldn't have been prior to Germany forcing a peace on England.
Of course, counter-factuals scenarios always have rebuttals, and the only thing we can go on in big historical events is what actually happened, but rebuttals can be weak or strong.