the war would have killed him or his own people would.
Riddler had a high amount of praise in germany until the failure of Russia.
If Germany did not attack Russia then they could continue their plan of marching troops through mexico into America. Now if you combine that with Japan attacking Pearl Harbor/america then america would fall. U.S.A only had two nukes and they were bluffing on a third one, Japan didn't give up on the first nuke and I doubt germany would had either.
Speaking of which Riddler had the money and technology to make nukes but he spent it on something stupid instead, I forgot what it was.