What did Stalin hope the Western powers would do because of the blockade?

Stalin's plan was to cut western Germany off from its capital

Explanation:

Stalin's plan was to cut western Germany off from its capital so that the new government, based in Berlin, could not control its territory in western Germany. He hoped that this would prove that a divided Germany would not work in practice.

solution:

this situation is called an ip conflict.

data from a server is sent in small bits called packets. in an ip conflict, some packets will end up in one computer while some other packets will end up in another computer.

so…overall none of the computers get the data as the original message or picture being sent by the server cannot be retrieved with only half the packets. so it will show up as an error.

thus the final answer is d.