Well, if you have the Egypt-Libya-Syria-Sudan federation hold together, and then have it join some analogue to Gaddafi's planned Libya-Tunisia-Algeria federation, you'd be on the right track. How to do that is beyond me though. I will say that i've always found Gaddafi a good one to turn to for...
Basically, i've always wondered how things would have gone if the USSR kept Poland, Finland, Moldova and the Baltics.
Obviously, we're dealing with a much more powerful USSR and a fairly different WW2 but beyond that i'm not entirely sure. I'd like to think that with a much larger pool of...
I suspect that Hitler would adopt a 'The enemy of my enemy is my friend' stance to that.
Plus, some of the activity could take place before the invasion of the USSR
With a POD in the 30s or later, just how much of a difference could these guys have made to the course of WW2?
I'm doubting they'd change the course of the war, but i'm willing to bet they could at least be a thorn in Britain's side. My question is just how big could this thorn be?
It was because Mannerheim took power and made separate peace.
Annexation of Finland was his original plan, but when the nation turns around and says "We'll stop fighting you and fight the Nazis instead", it's a pretty good offer.
Are there any limits on the POD? Because if not, this is entirely possible, seeing as we have over 200 years in which to change the internal politics of this nation
How much would the Chinese really interfere though? Mongolia had long since been designated as being in the Soviet sphere of influence.
Plus, China had it's own problems at the time
I think that having the USSR begin life larger might help.
I don't know if there's a logical way to have the USSR keep Russian imperial territory (Poland, Finland, Tuvan Republic, Moldova, Baltic states) but that would likely be a help. More so if they can grab any territory from...