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Russia was just starting a huge armaments building campaign that was gonna reach full power in 1943-1944 and the Germans believed by that point Germany wouldn't be able to even get close to Russia's war production
No, not really. It's probable Stalin would've invaded Europe, he was hoping France and Germany would exhaust each other in another long WW1 type fight first.
But the Krauts weren't acting on intelligence about Soviet capabilities, they knew almost nothing about what was happening in the USSR and so were shocked at the volume and quality of military hardware they tripped over on their way across the border. The Germans underestimated Soviet manpower by some ridiculous figure - something like 10 to 1 - their intelligence was so poor. They were doomed as soon as they started shooting at the Reds, there was literally no realistic win condition and their early, deceptive, victories quickly killed off their best, bravest and most experienced fighters in the hundreds of thousands, who couldn't be replaced.
Hubris and autism fuelled the German war plan. They thought they were going to literally enslave half of Eastern Europe, exterminate the other half, and create a permanent PVP zone starting at the Ural mountains. And they thought it was gonna be easy. It was CWCville tier magical thinking by literal defectives playing at being evil masterminds, and all they achieved in the end was their own violent ass rape.