Could Germany have won a defensive war against USSR?

>>2738131
Only if the Soviet Union collapses from internal strife.

Or if history turns out completely different and the allies don't oppose Germany.

>>2738131
The situations in which this would be possible (i.e., the West doesn't care what Hitler is up to, WW2 as we know it didn't start), are such that the Soviets, who are after all reasonably good at calculating consequences of their actions, are extremely unlikely to attack.

>>2738131
Well the main problem with the German invasion logistics. So if they could just defended they would have a major advantage and could inflict massive casualities with their superior tactics. Maybe the Soviet leadership would then sue for peace like with Finland.

>>2738176
What this guy said. Germany cannot win against the Soviet Union while simultaneously holding off the British Empire and the United States. They might be able to make the war in eastern europe last longer, but that just means that western allied armies get to Berlin first.

I still think that this does not answer the question of logistics for Germans. It'd basically confine them to either remain on the defensive for the overwhelmingly most-part, which I don't think would suit the warfare of WWII at all. It wasn't so static and easy to defend as it was in the previous war, and it's my opinion that in such a grandiose and important conflict of both ideology and nations it would have to come down to one of the countries exerting total dominance over the other and basically take over their whole country. The Germans already proved to be incapable of penetrating deep enough into Russia to make it submit and I genuinely don't think they could hold out long enough for the Soviets to be fully bled out.