The only problem with this idea if you look at Hitlers views and ideology is that one of his primary goals was expansion to the east and it pretty much didn't matter if it were Soviets ruling or Whites.
He saw the resources in the Soviet Union and he wanted them for himself... if those that currently occupied the land were not commies there is no reason to think he would not have tried to acquire these resources through alliances instead of through military invasion.
German/Soviet Cooperation during the 20s and early 30s was largely based on feelings both countries had been hard done by in WWI. Both countries lost land and were shut off from international relations to an extent and neither could be directly blamed for starting the war or helping it grow out of control like it did.
Of course without communism then there is a chance the Russians would have continued to fight the Germans till their surrender and the Russian Empire might have been the only other Empire to have survived WWI (the other being the British of course... though it was changing too). The Baltic states and Poland might not have existed, and when Hitler came to power he traded with communist Soviet Union... so likely he would have cooperated with Tsarist Russia too... but how far?
All that cooperation during the 20s and early 30s involved a lot of work on mobile warfare... neither side wanted trench warfare to be the norm as both had seen the results on the western front.
Without the sense of loss bringing them together to cooperate when no one else would cooperate with them they likely sewed the seeds of Blitzkrieg and developed their armour development and manufacturing industries in preparation for the war of revenge on the west. At the cost of Russian Jews the Russians might have been able to slip under Hitlers racist radar... after all he also had an alliance with Japan too... who hardly live up to his blonde hair blue eyes ideal either...
So from my POV such an alliance would most likely just serve as military calculus to lull the Whites into a false sense of security just like the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact did to Stalin.
The western allies were hardly friendly to the Soviets either... when asked why he was working with Stalin after all his anti commie rhetoric Churchill compared Stalin to Satan yet was ready to cooperate because he saw Hitler as worse. Once Hitler was out of the picture what sort of future could Stalin expect based on that?
Stalin was expecting a British double cross even after the German double cross (is that a swastika joke?). Could Tsarist Russia expect anything different?
I think it could because the human resources of Russia would be useful... the industrial potential interesting... the west supported the whites so if the whites did win then likely pressure to reenter the war against Germany would be high.. if they did that then the bond between Germany and Russia would be gone, as would collaboration on armour and other weapons and Russia would be much more in western Europes camp.
Of course having said that the support for Russia might have included British expeditionary forces and US expeditionary forces to fight on Russian territory against the Germans.
The permutations are enormous and complex.
BTW I just bought a book called Kirov, which is about an upgraded Kirov that travels through time back to WWII... whose side do they take? Knowing what they know now... having the firepower to end the war...
He was obsessed with an idea of "living space for germans", why would he bother with a small island instead of great russian spaces?
He was also quite practical and hated jews and commies most of all. As a food basket, a source of oil safe from western bombing, and a huge supply of soldiers that could be used against the UK to sink the unsinkable carrier.
His very racist views didn't stop him supporting the Japanese because they were useful to him in tying up a part of the British commonwealth in the pacific and later the Americans.
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