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  1. REDUX: Place In The Sun: What If Italy Joined The Central Powers?

    The Royal Navy have now the same problem that she had in OTL 1940, sure it's the biggest one around but she had also a lot of commitment. In the med she need to face Regia Marina and an hostile Italy mean that Malta need to be abandoned and with control of Tunisia the italians can cut the med in...
  2. Sequel de Mayo (Cinco de Mayo, Vol. II)

    Yep everyone in Rome will consider Montenegro in the italian sphere of influence so any Ottoman attempt to extend their influence there will not taken well and opposed immediately but increased influence in Serbia can be accepted more easily (nobody in Italy will be very happy but it will be...
  3. Sequel de Mayo (Cinco de Mayo, Vol. II)

    Add at this the extremely optimistic prediction to breach the italian alps and capture Turin in less than a month and with little more time basically conquer the rhineland and you realize that the French higher ups have the same attachment to reality of the Japanese government and military...
  4. REDUX: Place In The Sun: What If Italy Joined The Central Powers?

    So my two cents about the post war situation that can be summed this way: France: extremely bad, due to the loss both in blood, treasure and territory...revolution is basically a given and the outcome much depend on how the neighbourg (Germany and Italy) will react but i also expect that they...
  5. REDUX: Place In The Sun: What If Italy Joined The Central Powers?

    Not by that much, IRC the war will have been much shorter than OTL and we get the disputed zone from France (better if we get also Tunisia but the rest of the world is not showed) plus some piece from Austria IRC Albania is whole owned subsidiary of Italy
  6. Edifice: A History of the National Redoubt

    Italy will have not stopped Jugoslavia entering NATO, if the US pressure were also linked to some financial and military support and/or the Treaty of Osimo equivalent will have been less loopsided and more favorable to Italy in some terms. Sure the backlash will have still happened but it will...
  7. Edifice: A History of the National Redoubt

    Oh right Italian here and here we come You are talking about the OTL Treaty of Osimo, well Italy had ceded nothing in the treaty even because it's a little against our constitution, it's simple accepted the status quo, Trieste italian and the rest of the Free Territory of Trieste to Jugoslavia...
  8. Sequel de Mayo (Cinco de Mayo, Vol. II)

    As a note for Italy, well the main expense and reason for tension during the war after direct war material was food (grain) as with the straits closed our usual supplier aka Russia so we were forced to go to the americans whose price were higher and same can be said for all the others good. With...
  9. Sequel de Mayo (Cinco de Mayo, Vol. II)

    By that point the collateral will be already used, plus limiting the amount of loans mean crippling the French war effort and by this stage everyone with some brain cells will understand that doing that will also mean giving to Germany the control of the continent, so finance will take a...
  10. Map Thread XXII

    Unfortunely don't work this way, sure the nuke can be the official excuse to stop the fighting but there is no way that they meekly return home with their tail between the leg expecially after that kind of menace and in that manner. you do that and you can simply give up your status of...
  11. Sequel de Mayo (Cinco de Mayo, Vol. II)

    No war in Libya mean a huge bone to the italian economy due to the direct cost of the war and all the money spent later to replenish the equipment lost, plus more political stability will help the general economy and sure that Paris will be forced to get a large amount of debt because even if...
  12. Map Thread XXII

    The Soviet will happily tell to the Mexican that at the moment they are on their own because they will not risk the motherland for them; MAD work this way, once the nuke start everyone gets his fair and unfair share. The Soviet backing will happen BEFORE the invasion, making the american know...
  13. Sequel de Mayo (Cinco de Mayo, Vol. II)

    The big problem is that whatever sum loaned to the French and Austrian is at high risk to be lost forever in the aftermath of the war, due to revolution, dissolution and the pure and simple impossibility to pay back the loan
  14. Map Thread XXII

    Honestly i will have more expected the US government calmy explain to whatever is in charge in the carribean Union how extremely unwise or better utterly stupid and suicidal will have been even think about that move.
  15. Sequel de Mayo (Cinco de Mayo, Vol. II)

    Well the British Navy while big is not that much usefull in this situation due to Russia and the USA so a blockade is not possible and the British financial resources will not be in good place if they support the French and Austrian war effort and while you are right that appeasing the UK will...
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