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  1. WI Britain told Poland in 1939 "You're on your own." ?

    Versailles apologist troll alert! That Hitler exploited rightful German national claims on Danzig to do unspeakable atrocities to the Polish people is inexcusable, but in no means this justifies the dickish nationalist megalomania of interwar Poland, which went out of its way to bully and...

  2. Zu Schutz und Trutz - Bismarck killed in 1866

    Given that Garibaldi had chased the Austrians out of Trentino, yes, yes, it does, at least as it concerns Trento. But admittedly it's your TL, and as much as I wish otherwise, I seemingly cannot do much to diminish the anti-Italian stereotype ("no matter the circumstances Italy never deserves...

  3. European alliance system with successful 1848 Revolutions

    The topic of this thread is to discuss the European alliance system that would most likely emerge after the success of the 1848 Revolutions, and also which major wars between two or more great powers would most likely occur, if any (possibly even a WWI equivalent, but not a given by any means)...

  4. WI Britain told Poland in 1939 "You're on your own." ?

    As long as France stands unconquered, a German sphere of influence in Eastern Europe does not mean a German total domination of Europe, by any means. Nor it does an Axis-Soviet attrition war which most likely ends in a stalemate.

  5. Zu Schutz und Trutz - Bismarck killed in 1866

    Please also give Italy Trentino (not South Tyrol) and Gorizia-Gradisca. With a victory at Lissa, they deserve it.

  6. WI Britain told Poland in 1939 "You're on your own." ?

    Yep. Up to April '39, Britain owed Poland nothing. IIRC, in 1938 the UK Cabinet seriously discussed to declare that British security interests in continental Europe stopped at the Rhine (of course, not including the Turkish Straits and the like).

  7. WI Britain told Poland in 1939 "You're on your own." ?

    A stalemate on the 1939/1941 border in this kind of Axis-Soviet war is quite likely, and the *realistic* potential final outcomes may range from a Brest-Litovsk peace to an USSR controlling everything east of the pre-WWII eastern German-Czech-Italian border. A total Soviet victory, with a...

  8. Zu Schutz und Trutz - Bismarck killed in 1866

    The bottom line: the conditions (size of Prussian-Italian victory, French diplomatic intervention) are not conductive to the dismantlement of Austria as a great power; so Bohemia-Moravia and Trieste are out. But Saxony and Sudetenland on one side, Trento and Gorizia-Gradisca on the other...

  9. Zu Schutz und Trutz - Bismarck killed in 1866

    Less meaningful, however, if Italy performs better, and Austria worse, than OTL. In those conditions, it makes more sense for Prussia/Germany to pursue Italy as main junior ally and Russia as main peer ally. A worse Austrian performance in the Italian front indirectly weakens them on the...

  10. Zu Schutz und Trutz - Bismarck killed in 1866

    I expect more Prussian AND Italian annexations. Prussia could easily have asked more even IOTL (Saxony and Sudetenland), and Italy has done better ITTL, so it may ask more (Trento and Gorizia-Gradisca).

  11. AHC: Split Belgium in two

    Seconded. For a partition of Belgium in the 19th century, the Talleyrand-Wellington Plan is the way to go.

  12. Zu Schutz und Trutz - Bismarck killed in 1866

    If Prussia and Italy do better than expected, those talks would not entirely valid anymore. Britain is in "splendid isolation", fairly disinterested in Austro-Prussian squabbles, and generally sympathetic to Italian unification. Its concerns for the continental balance of power would not surely...

  13. Zu Schutz und Trutz - Bismarck killed in 1866

    Interesting PoD but I find it rather unlikely that without Bismarck at the helm and with the Italian naval victory making the situation worse for Austria, Prussia and Italy do not gain an inch more than OTL. I would have really expected Prussia to annex Saxony and/or the Sudetenland, and Italy...

  14. Explosion heard around the world... Or Elser succeeds

    Moreover, and/or alternatively, Italy could and would easily bargain its military support to Romania with German and Entente recognition of Italian territorial and sphere of influence claims on Yugoslavia, to be enacted once the Romanian crisis is settled.

  15. AHC/WI: 'Napoleonic' alliances in WWI

    No need to go back so far. As I see it, a fairly easy way to set up this kind of alliance system in Europe would be to let the 1848 revolutions win in France, Kleindeutchsland, and Italy, but not the Habsburg Empire (well, apart of Italian possessions, obviously). Ideological antagonism...

  16. AHC/WI: 'Napoleonic' alliances in WWI

    The purpose of the thread is to devise and discuss an event chain, with a POD as late as possible, by which an alternate WW1 occurs with the following alliance system: Central Powers: France, Germany, Italy, Japan, USA Entente: British Empire, Russia, Habsburg Empire, Ottoman Empire, China...

  17. Explosion heard around the world... Or Elser succeeds

    Basically correct. The only thing that could save Yugoslavia is Germany or Britain/France vetoing Mussolini's ambitions, and that's unlikely given the circumstances. A united Yugoslavia isn't particularly useful to the other great powers once France dropped the Little Entente as a tool to...

  18. Explosion heard around the world... Or Elser succeeds

    I doubt the other great powers would care if a Munich-type scenario awards Dalmatia to Italy as the price to make Mussolini content and cooperative for anti-Soviet/Japanese containment, and this prods Croatia to break away and Yugoslavia to collapse on its own.

  19. Explosion heard around the world... Or Elser succeeds

    Not a real problem for Italy since it has already done something similar in Spain, too.

  20. Explosion heard around the world... Or Elser succeeds

    Quite possibly. And the same may be valid for Italy and Yugoslavia (i.e. border adjustments that would give coastal Dalmatia to Italy).
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