We all know the Germans'll try for Mittelafrika... but what if they try for Mittelindia too?
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Perhaps OE could take Kuwait and Libya. Not sure if A-H was intrested about Libya. It had already problems on its continental territories. Not any point take some oversea territory. And OE owned Libya only couple years before the Great War.
Not any chances. Germany has not any chances claim anything from India. Either it should conquer India or occupy UK and then read terms for Brits. But they can't do that so not way that they can claim even smnallest part of India. They could try support Indian independence movement anyway.
At the very least, Germany will aim to reclaim East Africa, given German forces under Lettow-Vorbeck are still undefeated in the field over there. In the Pacific, considering one reason Britain snapped up Japan as an ally in 1902 was to preempt Germany doing so, Germany is likely to reach a face-saving agreement with Japan. Likely a token cash payment for the Qingdao Leased Territory and the North Pacific Islands. Laying the groundwork, as it were, to snap Japan up in 1922.
Germany though will fight to regain German New Guinea and the surrounding islands, as their primary naval base in the Pacific is there: Rabaul.
Germany though will fight to regain German New Guinea and the surrounding islands, as their primary naval base in the Pacific is there: Rabaul.
Yes, he'll have five boys and they'll make a band named "The Hitler 5"
They'd probably accept a fair share at the least. The canal is in Ottoman soil, and the Ottomans' goodwill makes for a better alliance. Especially since the Germans also want the oil in Mesopotamia.
The British would never give up the canal. At most, the Ottomans could get like 25% of the income from the canal
What kind of bargaining chip do the British have that lets them keep the Suez? AFAIK they lost pretty much everywhere, so them keeping their colonies depends entirely on how generous the Central Powers are feeling.
The Suez would be a sticking point for both sides. I could see a neutral power getting the canal as a sort of compromise.
UK is going to keep its colonies. There is not any way how CPs could pressure Brits. They are not occupying London, them have only Suez and Sinai, they can't starve Brits with embargo (Napoleon tried this and failed) and CPs are unaple continue war much longer and even more unable invade the Islands.
And yet possession is nine-tenths of the law. With their Middle Eastern forces decimated, and the Ottomans currently skinny-dipping in the Suez, I highly doubt Britain's in any position to keep anything in Egypt.
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Agreed. The CP cannot seize British colonies sans agreement; the British cannot take back the Suez Canal.
"Holdings" may have been a better term to use; I'm not implying that the CP could demand South Africa, only Egypt.
One of the German's problems is that the UK is a huge export market for their goods and the economic dislocation of their losing India would not work to Germany's best advantage. Much better to hold Suez and let the UK know that "Germany has no designs on the British Empire. It's a lovely Empire, it would be a great shame if anything happened to it."
Exactly!Just read this in Trump's voice in my head and am extremely creeped out now.
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