You can take land but can you keep it, always the question. Thru history you see empires falling. You need to have alliances but they fall apart. Alexander the Great, that didn't last long. Napoleon, I compare Hitler to them. Why'd he let British go at Dunkirk, he may have had hopes for Britain to eventually join back up as allies. He invaded Poland, but Poland had an alliance to come to their aid, took a while but it did eventually. The english royal family had german ties, Hitler may have hoped eventually the join him. King Edward was a nazi but he fell in love with a honeypot like a dumbass, that may have ruined some plans. Suez canal, now they could have put all efforts to that, but man talk about valuable real estate, would they be able to keep that long? Being a water port also means it gets attacked by ships and subs. I know this wasn't jus tsenseless warmongering and if it wasn't Hitler someone else would have been in that position and the arrow of history was leading to war. Maybe if Hitler never existed Himmler would have been chancellor for example. Doesn't matter. What was germany supposed to do, sit back, slowly pay WWI reparations, duriing the great depression, not accept the free money from American businessmen? Profits and land were gained by some from this war that supported both sides.