Was continuing the war after Germany conquered France in Britain's best interest?

After the conquest of France, the Germans sent peace offers to the British, which Churchill refused. Was this really in Britain's best interest, as the continuation of the war led to the end of the British Empire afterwards? Obviously it wouldn't be in the rest of non-German Europe's interest, but it's not like that matters much to perfidious Albion.

A divided Europe is always in the Anglo's best interest. And it's a damn good idea. America now practices those same policies.

>britain obviously knew beforehand that they would lose their empire after the war

Wehraboo logic.

If the British hadn't continued the war then either the Americans would have threatened war with them to force them to continue after Pearl Harbor and the outcome would have been the same or the Americans would have stayed out of Europe and the Soviets would have probably conquered all of it including Britain.

Well they specifically promised many countries independence after the war, and tried very hard to prevent war in the first place, but by that time anyone interested in peace had lost political power and churchill wasn't going to cede his main claim to leadership.

>forfeit control of the continent to a single power

This is utterly contrary to 400 years of British grand strategy. The Empire is meaningless if Europe's balance of power is destroyed.

By the time WW2 started, the Brits were screwed. Either they would bow down to German overlords, or bow down to American overlords. They picked the latter.

The Brits made the mistake of not attacking Germany in the Munich Crisis. Chamberlain was a fucking idiot. Germany couldn't of stood against being surrounded by the combined might of Poland, Czechoslovakia, France and the U.K.

this.

good plan captain hindsight.
attacking then would have made the GB a tyrannical villain. Germany was still paying them tribute for the great war to end all wars, one that no one in England or France wanted to see again.

How would Britain surrendering and losing their credibility make them any more likely to keep their empire?

>attack at Munich
You mean coordinate with the French in such a way as to never allow the Franco-Soviet Mutual Assurance treaty that permitted Hitler to remilitarize the Rhineland without a show of force.

The best plan is to show nominal support for the czechoslovaks,they werent ready yet to mobilize for the war but banking on prague holding on is pretty worthwhile since they are a very tough nut to crack1

Would it really have been? The Sudetendeutsch were pretty enthusiastic about joining Germany, and I suspect it'd be difficult to handle an outside invasion AND domestic partisans at the same time.

Hitler never wanted the empire to break, he just wanted a different EU where things would be "white people, fuck yeah" but no one let it happen

I quote the Wikipedia article on Enoch Powell:
>It was in Algiers that the beginning of Powell's distrust of the United States began. After socially mixing with senior American officers that he met and exploring their cultural views of the world, he became convinced that one of America's war aims was to destroy the British Empire. Writing home on 16 February 1943, Powell stated: "I see growing on the horizon the greater peril than Germany or Japan ever were... our terrible enemy, America...."
I bet he wasn't the first one realizing that the British deviousness was also inherited by their bastard offspring.

How would that even work? All Euro nations give hands to opress and rule the rest of the world?

you mean "german people, fuck yeah"

Hitler belived that all whites should be bros and rule over the non-whites, he didn't wanted a society of super saiyans.

Nigger are you retarded, the soviets would have run out of cannon fodder had the germans been fighting only in the eastern front.

>Generalplan Ost

That was a change of plans, not the initial idea, peace offers only last so long.

This. So what if Britain gets to keep a mostly worthless Empire when they're shut out of continental markets by Nazi economic autism?

History isn't a videogame. They don't win if they keep the map painted their color.

They could've sued for peace, the nazis were asking for it early in the war, also if Britain was so worried about a Nazi continent, they could've waited and prepared for war.

>Time that the germans could've used to fortify the continent further
>time that they could've rooted out any resistance movements proper
>time they could've actually spent doing the shoah without it impacting their military operations.

yeah ok

Well, the germans wouldn't fortify stuff if the war ceased. I agree with the later points but Hitler had an idealistic point of view, which is the very reason it costed him the war.

>They wouldn't fortify their conquests in preparation for another war

you don't understand enemies do you? just because you've reached a peace treaty doesn't mean they wont come back with vengeance.

Well, I do undestand enemies, but you don't undestand Hitler, the guy operated on anime logic.

i know he was 'invade Russia in winter' level of retarded but he wasn't THAT retarded.

This is the same Hitler who tried to genocide the ukranians instead of making a temporary alliance and stabbing them when the war was over, the same guy who did the same thing with the jews, giving scientists and motivated personal to fight aginst him instead of giving them a taste of their own medicine, but wait, this is the same Hitler who invested on fucking wonder weapons, the same guy who wanted the Heavy Gustav be converted into a tank instead of focusing better stuff, the same Hitler who didn't invest in bomber jets and nukes and the same Hitler who thought hiring that slimy fuck Goering was good idea.