If Germany had, instead of bombing England, focused entirely on prolonged attacking of shipping.

[Bleipriester]

Yes, France was defeated early. This is why the Germans could assume that nobody could endanger them.
As for Britain, maybe you are familiar with Hess´ fate.

And was almost all the other Countries in Europe Proper. Only a nutcase would have pressed any further. There was nothing Britain could have done about it without the direct support of the US. Had Germany just stopped there, today, Germany would be where the EU is today. Of course, Fascism would have failed sooner or later being replaced by the old Social Democratic Government it once had. Germany would have ended up closer to the United States. And if Hitler waited a bit longer, Operation Barborosa would have been a wild success. But Hitler got greedy, way too greedy and it's not the first time in history a powerful country failed because of greed. In the end, the world ended up the better of it.

It was not possible. Fact is that Hitler wasn´t the only Hitler. We tell history from the version of the victorious powers, just for fact´s sake. The Wehrmacht overran Stalins preparations of an invasion, this why there was a huge initial success against an enemy far superior in numbers. The same applies for Churchill who had a problem with Germany, later with the USSR. So if Hitler wanted this or that, doesn´t matter.
Fact is that Hitler neither sought for war with France or the British Empire. His Lebensraum plans were limited to the east, where Germany hat lost territory after WW1. Also Spain, Portugal, Italy and Romania were not occupied but allies.
France was also not totally occupied. The Germans took the north (not for taking it over, but military reasons) but left the south to a French administration, the Vichy government.
So that doesn´t make Hitler a saint, simply one player in the game of reckless dictators.

Yes, Hey YOU Vichys, do it this way or we will be right over. Sounds and smells like defeat to me.

Nobody claims German won.

I used your What If. What If, Germany didn't bomb London and sued for peace instead stopping with what they had already taken? Exactly what would Britain had been able to do about it? The Germans had control of the Oil, mines, etc., natural resources and the industrial manufacturing. What they didn't directly control, they had treaties and agreements with those that did. The US would have had no reason, after a while, to keep resupplying Britain if Britain were no longer being bombed or at war. And I can say this, Germany at the time, was probably more popular than the USSR so forget the help to the USSR since they would be on their own. The only thing bombing London did was to give the British the resolve to continue with the war.

I agree, the war on London was wrong, Hitler ran into Churchill´s trap. I said that already here in this what if thread. Actually, the Luftwaffe was not allowed to bomb London. But that changed.
The US would have done everything to help the Brits, drove their own people into a World War against the public opinion two times.

 

[whitehall]

Thanks to the maniac Fuhrer, Germany made a lot of strategic mistakes like invading Russia but it didn't have a surface navy worth shit and they couldn't put out enough submarines to make a difference.