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Topic	How would things be different if the confederates won the civil war?
Pogo_Marimo 06/07/23 5:14:57 PM #37:	uwnim posted... Forget ww2, ww1 would have been different. With the US, Confederacy and Mexico all in North America, Germany has an easier time trying to start up a war there. France and Britain get less support. US troops dont get sent over near the end. Germany still doesnt win of course, but they dont suffer a crushing defeat and their territorial losses are minimal. Theyd still lose Alsace-Lorraine and maybe some other stuff in the west, but that would be about it. Wouldnt be demilitarized and wouldnt be forbidden from merging with Austria. I don't know why you would even assume WWI would still happen in vaguely the same way. The entire political nature of the Western Hemisphere is flipped on its head as the Monroe doctrine is explicitly undermined by the existence of a signficant military power in contention with the U.S. Sudddnly South America might be a half century long battlefield instead where colonial conflicts breed alliances and greivances over decades of warfare and political conflict. It's a fairly blatantly sophmoric exercise to apply such deterministic concepts to what is a staggering reversal of geopolitics. --- 'Cause you know that I have no fear, ain't gonna walk into the river and disappear. I'm gonna be a powerful man. Red blood running down the broken sand. <cite>Pogo_Marimo posted [p:973992094] in How would ... [t:80469258]...</cite> <quote>uwnim posted... </cite><quote>Forget ww2, ww1 would have been different. With the US, Confederacy and Mexico all in North America, Germany has an easier time trying to start up a war there. France and Britain get less support. US troops dont get sent over near the end. Germany still doesnt win of course, but they dont suffer a crushing defeat and their territorial losses are minimal. Theyd still lose Alsace-Lorraine and maybe some other stuff in the west, but that would be about it. Wouldnt be demilitarized and wouldnt be forbidden from merging with Austria.</quote>I don't know why you would even assume WWI would still happen in vaguely the same way. The entire political nature of the Western Hemisphere is flipped on its head as the Monroe doctrine is explicitly undermined by the existence of a signficant military power in contention with the U.S. Sudddnly South America might be a half century long battlefield instead where colonial conflicts breed alliances and greivances over decades of warfare and political conflict. It's a fairly blatantly sophmoric exercise to apply such deterministic concepts to what is a staggering reversal of geopolitics. --- 'Cause you know that I have no fear, ain't gonna walk into the river and disappear. I'm gonna be a powerful man. Red blood running down the broken sand.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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