Inspector Javert
Banned
How would something like this work? I'm thinking it would probably wind up being the North African version of Israel/Palestine, only spread out over a much larger area, which means that it will probably be even more of a nightmare for the governments/militaries involved.
(this was actually considered in real life)
The biggest problem with this is that Europeans (most weren't ethnically French, surprisingly) were spread all over the place, so unlike, say, Czechoslovakia, it would be impossible to do a partition that didn't leave hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people on the wrong side of the border.
Any partition without some sort of population exchange (a la Greece and Turkey in the 20s) would have failed to achieve the stated objective of a state for each ethnic group (European and Arab).
Another problem is the sparsely populated southern region of the country. It is full of oil, so France would want it, but it is notoriously hard to secure (even to this day, there is a lot of instability and violence in the region)
I could see some sort of population exchange resulting on France holding onto the northwestern coast (from the Moroccan border up to Algiers), but I couldn't see France holding onto much more.
What would this mean for 2021? What would the region be like today if France had held onto the northwestern coast and done a population exchange?
Would it cause an endless geopolitical conflict between France (and Europe in general) and Algeria/Morocco (and maybe the entire Arab League, like Israel/Palestine has)
Would France be a closer ally to Israel in this timeline?
Assuming that Europeans were an overwhelming majority of this French Algeria rump territory, would there be strong pressure on France to cede it to Algeria?
(this was actually considered in real life)
The biggest problem with this is that Europeans (most weren't ethnically French, surprisingly) were spread all over the place, so unlike, say, Czechoslovakia, it would be impossible to do a partition that didn't leave hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people on the wrong side of the border.
Any partition without some sort of population exchange (a la Greece and Turkey in the 20s) would have failed to achieve the stated objective of a state for each ethnic group (European and Arab).
Another problem is the sparsely populated southern region of the country. It is full of oil, so France would want it, but it is notoriously hard to secure (even to this day, there is a lot of instability and violence in the region)
I could see some sort of population exchange resulting on France holding onto the northwestern coast (from the Moroccan border up to Algiers), but I couldn't see France holding onto much more.
What would this mean for 2021? What would the region be like today if France had held onto the northwestern coast and done a population exchange?
Would it cause an endless geopolitical conflict between France (and Europe in general) and Algeria/Morocco (and maybe the entire Arab League, like Israel/Palestine has)
Would France be a closer ally to Israel in this timeline?
Assuming that Europeans were an overwhelming majority of this French Algeria rump territory, would there be strong pressure on France to cede it to Algeria?