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  1. To the Victor, Go the Spoils (Redux): A Plausible Central Powers Victory

    The thing is that, on the one hand, from an economic point of view, France is much more dependent on certain resources from the colonies than otl and will therefore have a much greater interest in keeping its colonies. Furthermore, a lot depends on whether there will be a second great war and to...

  2. To the Victor, Go the Spoils (Redux): A Plausible Central Powers Victory

    How do you come up with the Imperial Federation? Because if I remember correctly, at that point OTL was already a dead idea. Or to put it a little differently, the Imperial Federation fell in Europe between 1914 and 1918. The First World War damaged both the prestige and the financial resources...

  3. To the Victor, Go the Spoils (Redux): A Plausible Central Powers Victory

    I'm not so sure about that. France itself has enough internal problems and I doubt very much that they would accept a communist nation right on their borders, if they have a say in it, especially if there is a risk that their own communists might get funny ideas. Add to this the guaranteed...

  4. To the Victor, Go the Spoils (Redux): A Plausible Central Powers Victory

    I'm a little embarrassed now, I apparently didn't read what you wrote properly.( Hadn't noticed the don't as such)

  5. To the Victor, Go the Spoils (Redux): A Plausible Central Powers Victory

    Unfortunately, I cannot agree with your opinion. A "temporary" phase of authoritarianism to protect the gains of the revolution against counter-revolutionary elements, both internal and external, is always relatively easy to justify, regardless of the official ideology of the revolutionaries...

  6. To the Victor, Go the Spoils (Redux): A Plausible Central Powers Victory

    The thing seems to be that you let yourself be guided more by a propagandistic distorted image of Germany in your thought experiments than by a real Germany, especially if you consider the different distribution of power ITTL. ITTL the Emperor was forced into a kind of proto-British system...

  7. To the Victor, Go the Spoils (Redux): A Plausible Central Powers Victory

    I think you extrapolate too much from OTL to evaluate the ITTL political movement in France. ITTL France lost two major conflicts against Germany, the first at a perceived zenith of their power and the second as part of an alliance of several great powers and even that was not enough to stand...

  8. To the Victor, Go the Spoils (Redux): A Plausible Central Powers Victory

    At this time, the German-speaking part of the Danube Monarchy has no particularly strong identity outside of its affiliation to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Therefore, should this collapse, the only identity left for the German-speaking population would be German, especially as there would be...

  9. To the Victor, Go the Spoils (Redux): A Plausible Central Powers Victory

    Personally, I like the absence of the frequent cliché that France, after a defeat in the First World War, either immediately falls victim to a Communist revolution or serves as a mirror image of OTL Germany with a rise of some kind of Nazi party with French characteristics. France is politically...

  10. To the Victor, Go the Spoils (Redux): A Plausible Central Powers Victory

    A little bit better?The ITTL situation for Germany compared to OTL is massively better. Germany has a government recognised as legitimate by the absolute majority of the population, civil servants, the military and the other power blocs. That is something the Weimar Republic did not really have...

  11. To the Victor, Go the Spoils (Redux): A Plausible Central Powers Victory

    I may have expressed myself somewhat awkwardly on this point, but what I meant to say was that at that time the majority of the German population still lived in rural areas. This population is traditionally more conservative than the urban population. I also think that the decision of the SPD...

  12. To the Victor, Go the Spoils (Redux): A Plausible Central Powers Victory

    I see some risks for the SPD and other left-wing parties in Germany in the future. For one thing, there is still the risk that there could be a kind of stab-in-the-back myth, especially if Germany's success at the negotiating table is not commensurate with the sacrifices made. There is also the...

  13. Wrapped in Flames: The Great American War and Beyond

    I think it should be kept in mind that the US at that time was not yet the industrial giant it later became and that Britain at that time was one of the most powerful if not the undisputed most powerful great power on the planet. The US relied on external trade in many areas of the Civil War...

  14. Wrapped in Flames: The Great American War and Beyond

    I have the feeling that you have several wrong assumptions about the Second Schleswig-Holstein War / German-Danish War. The Danes were not defeated by massive numerical superiority. At the beginning of the war, about 38,000 Danish soldiers faced 60,000 Germans (Austria & Prussia). Sweden had...

  15. Wrapped in Flames: The Great American War and Beyond

    Very unlikely, Prussia and Austria are major European powers and Denmark and Sweden do not even play together in the same league as one of the two nations. Considering that the entire German Confederation was involved in this conflict, it should be clear that Denmark's dream of holding on to the...
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