How could the Spanish Civil War end in a bloody stalemate? And what would be the effect of such event to Spain and the rest of Europe?
Depends on when it ends.
BUTTERFLIES WOULD EFFECT THE MOLOTOV - RIBBENTROP PACT IF IT ENDS MORE THAN 4 MONTHS AND 3 WEEKS LATER THAN OTL.Let's just say it ends in 1939.
The main problem with any stalemate proposal is that if WWII breaks out, which is extremely likely, its hard to see the peninsula not getting dragged in, and that's going to break the stalemate one way or the other.
Dr. Strangelove,
that is a very interesting scenario, but it sounds more like a slow Republican victory than a stalemate.
It would be interesting to see how would evolve the Spanish civil war if it stalemates into the beginning of the ww2.Maybe it's because in the last year of the war, victory through stalemate was the Republic's strategy. Republican leadership had understood that it wouldn't be able to inflict a decisive defeat on the Nationalists, so they switched their strategy from minor offensives aimed to taking provincial capitals back to just holding out until the great european war started(the Ebro offensive was a desperate action brought by the need to reconnect Catalonia with the rest of the Republican zone).
Maybe it's because in the last year of the war, victory through stalemate was the Republic's strategy. Republican leadership had understood that it wouldn't be able to inflict a decisive defeat on the Nationalists, so they switched their strategy from minor offensives aimed to taking provincial capitals back to just holding out until the great european war started(the Ebro offensive was a desperate action brought by the need to reconnect Catalonia with the rest of the Republican zone).