Proposals and War Aims That Didn't Happen Map Thread
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Now here's a fun one: All of Vladimir Zhirinovsky's craziest ideas rolled up into one map. He's certainly had some very... colourful plans over the years:
Soviet Reunion: This is the one part he's still advocating in the present day, most recently as a part of his policy platform for the 2018 Russian presidential election. In 2014 he had a separate plan to divide up Ukraine but to keep the borders looking neat I've excluded that.
Former Russian Empire territories: In the 1990s, Zhirinovsky intended to negotiate an arrangement to purchase Alaska back from the US, and to annex Finland.
The Middle East: In 1994 Zhirinovsky expressed interest in the idea of directly annexing Turkey, Iran and Saudi Arabia. He also was a big fan of Saddam Hussein, so I've put in Iraq as an independent puppet state.
Japan: Zhirinovsky once planned to sell the Kurils to Japan for 50 Billion USD.
Eastern Europe: In 2000 Zhirinovsky stated that it was vital that Russia build up a military alliance in Europe to counterbalance NATO, with Bulgaria and what remained of Yugoslavia as member states. He's also believed to consider the former Warsaw Pact countries to be part of the Russia's ideal sphere of influence.
Bulgaria: In 1994 he suggested the addition of some of eastern Greece and coastal Romania to Bulgaria.
Germany: At some point Zhirinovsky made comments stating that he preferred to see a Germany that was, "as small as Austria". I've done my best to interpret that here with an independent Bavaria (Germany's only major separatist movement) and the return of East Germany as another Russian puppet state.
Ah Russia, when Putin is nowhere near the worst possible leader they could have.
I'm sure at least some of these have been mentioned at some point, but there are some interesting "almost happened" territorial acquisitions for Canada in the Caribbean.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_...itories_of_Canada#Movements_outside_of_Canada
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_...itories_of_Canada#Movements_outside_of_Canada
As an American, I can can safely say that this is the Canada we need, but not the one we deserve.
I know that the scenario you are mapping is irredeemably implausible to begin with, but I have to wonder: if this expansionist Russia intends to partition the Baltic between itself and Germany, would it not make more sense to hand them Lithuania? This guy already wants to divide Poland between Russia and Germany and hand over Kaliningrad, so Lithuania would actually border Germany, while Estonia would only serve as a random enclave within the Russian sphere of influence. Furthermore, Estonia actually has a significant population of ethnic Russians, while Lithuania does not.
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As an American, I can can safely say that this is the Canada we need, but not the one we deserve.
While we're at it, here's every American expansionist plan on Wikipedia's "51st state" page combined (except Denmark since that one was more of a humorous comment than an actual idea).
Edit: Added the British Isles. Gibraltar is never mentioned so I gave it to Spain.
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I didn't even know Poland was a proposal.While we're at it, here's every American expansionist plan on Wikipedia's "51st state" page combined (except Denmark since that one was more of a humorous comment than an actual idea).
If the British West Indies are being added then this map is missing British Honduras and British Guiana.
Also the Falklands were suggested too in 1919 (that would have made for an interesting 1982 if Argentina still invaded...)
@Christory the plans were only to offer one to four of the most southern islands. The ones the Japanese claimed were not actually a part of the Kurile Islands.