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I remember reading tha tone of Italy's problems was they were the first nation to realize that technology advances made WW I equipment badly obsolete. So they rearmed. Which meant they had WW I.5 equipment and couldn't afford to replace everything again.
So if they bet a war won't break out for a while and keep doing R&D and then rearm just before WW II so they are ahead of the rest they would do better. |
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Join Date: Dec 2012
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Join Date: Mar 2008
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Join Date: Feb 2011
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But reconsidering this, I think that we still want to start the PoD with an accepted Zimmerman telegram. Mexico gets its desired land, and the USA is humiliated and forced to address the possibility of further Mexican expansion. This leads to an eastward contraction and weakening of the US economy, compounding the dust bowl. The USA sees a stronger socialist tilt, while Mexico's already alternate strong military power group embraces cartelism and invites foreign capital. An already weakened USA is unable to stem the tide of fleeing industrialists heading for warmer southern shores, further advancing the technological might of Mexico... Japan still takes the pacific northwest all the way up to Canada. Russia solidifies its hold on Alaska. Yeah, this is starting to become still insane but less factually incorrect (I hope). |
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Join Date: Aug 2004
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No worries these things happen.
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If the US was being invaded by Mexico and Japan, the UK could very well take part of New England "to protect needed war material production."
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: West Virginia
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Another possibility from a US Mexican conflict would be a defeat of Mexico. The bad blood that a 1917 smackdown of Mexico would leave would have serious knock on effects through the 20th century. Especially in warping the "Good Neighbor Policy" and complicating the Cold War.
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: West Virginia
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Reading Eugen Weber's The Hollow Years: France in the 1930s it occurs to me that, if you could have gotten a charismatic leader like FDR, France might have seemed to though to beat. Given how hard a fight French soliders put up, and the fundamentals of both economies, Germany was dammed lucky (and the French generals dammed slack).
But give France its own Roosevelt and Germany would have needed to look eastward. Given how many French people hated the very idea of a second world war, if Hitler played his cards close to his vest (not really his long suit) World War II could have been a mainly Russo-German war. Without a war in the West, Hitler's supply problems would be much less brutal. I still don't see Hitler crushing Russia, but both nations could be broken. I could see either Centrum or the Cabal wanting that outcome. Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia committing mutual suicide would certainly slow down decolonization. The USA would be likely to be even more strongly influenced by Roosevelt's New Deal. Britain would be more likely to stay in a Tory holding pattern. Japan, without the hope of a distracted America likely follows a more restrained policy overseas. But if Russia is seriously weakened, the Army might try to take Siberia. What do you guys think?
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Join Date: Oct 2010
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Join Date: Jul 2007
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