not the expert on the subject but a religious civil war or strife might be more realistic than a Communist led revolution? Subhash Chandra Bose did go first to the USSR but my understanding the Soviets were not receptive?
it seems they could reach a deal with France, Belgium, and the Netherlands (keeping the Maginot Line and other fortified positions) but doubtful they would leave Denmark and Norway?
this would all move out of the very speculative category if the USSR and/or Japan were making moves? (to settle...
what kind of hypothetical deal could be struck between Germany and the UK? it does not seem possible that the Nazi regime would (immediately at least) withdraw from all the occupied countries like the Low Countries and Norway?
my understanding Nazi Germany had zero interest in the return of any...
it seems, at least for a time, there would be no need to launch any Battle of Britain? beyond the Channel warfare.
would the British attack on the French fleet at Mers-el-Kebir happen under this scenario? the rationale would still be there but the British would be lacking a certain credibility...
while my postings on this subject are endorsing caution on the German side , if we start with a German victory at Dunkirk, a large majority of the BEF captured, there is no way to see it other than a catastrophe for GB.
who knows what the Vichy regime, the USSR, and Japan would do? with a much...
it seems to me there would be more apparent downside than upside (at the time), the worst scenario would be a stalled offensive rather than any British evacuation(s), which could be seen as tomorrow's problem?
so it's down to the LW and KM to stop the evacuations? rather than drain or divert...
missed this exchange but thought it worth revisiting. the merchant raiders needed some aviation component, but fell victim to the latter two points, it alerted nearby ships a raider was present and the aircraft were cumbersome to launch and somewhat fragile (with the methods used on the...
the Germans laid all/most of the mines during the timeframe I'm talking about, despite that the Soviets sailed a convoy of more than 200 ships including many large ones. they avoided a southern route closer to German forces along the coastline, but the German KM could have used that route.
IDK...
this is my reasoning for a larger naval effort in the Baltic, they have nowhere else to rob. they could weaken the defense of Leningrad if they stopped the Soviet evacuations to the city. (there was the similar scenario with evacuations, by sea, from Odessa to Crimea)
the German KM could bring...
the counterpart to my prior speculation of a more robust naval effort against Leningrad is some better effort in the Black Sea. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44641609?seq=3
it might be possible to invade directly from Crimea towards Maikop, something prevented historically by the remaining...
just IMO, the Germans cannot defeat the USSR but could force some type of deal on them, and they (the German side) would need (at least) two objectives Leningrad (to control the Baltic and for political influence) and Crimea/Maykop.
my speculation whenever this subject is raised is for some greater naval effort towards Leningrad initially, the Soviet evacuations from Tallinn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_evacuation_of_Tallinn (and a little more detailed...
yeah some German , a very influential some German, cooperation with both countries did happen. my posting was in response to a suggestion of a full blown Germany-USSR-China Axis, rather than endorse that idea pointed out they could have simply continued dealings with both.
that is in broad...