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Well, you would need Israel to get involved on Turkish side. Oh and Turkey not being busy occupying Syria (in the name of "freeing Syrians from their junta and Islamic terrorists" and "stabilizing the country"), as well as occupying Iraqi Kurdistan. And sabre rattling with Iran. With the...

Also, I'm expecting Japan to take advantage of US (supposed) distraction to start a fire in Far East...

Klein feels like a weird Bond movie character (a little bit of Bond with the "I take initiatives to save the world without my government's consent" and fighting cartoon villains in exotic lands ; a little bit of Bond villains with his schemes and defection and overbloated ego).

Maybe Klein has a (hastily hatched and yet daring) plan behind this ?

It's something obvious, but while trade between China and Germany was hugely beneficial to both in peacetime (bringing needed resources to Germany and expertise to China), it would have been stopped dead cold as soon as the war had started, had the two remained allies (by the RN, MN and/or IJN)...

Indeed, it's very very very likely that the USA declare war on Germany regardless of Japan. So the Nazis fight themselves fighting Britain and Free France (with their entire empires + Belgian and Dutch colonies), the USA and USSR all focused on them alone.

Japan would likely not occupy Indochina, meaning the invasion of DEI and Malaya, as well as Pearl Harbor, are avoided too. Which is a double edged sword : it removes the Far Eastern Front for the British. It means the USA won't be dragged into war by Pearl Harbor, good for Nazis. However, the...

Japan likely won't try to take Free French Indochina, as in '40 Japanese weren't ready (or willing) to fight the whole British and French empires, and that's what would happen. Which, in turn, precludes the Southern Option and Pearl Harbor (both because of the logistics of invading DEI and...

Actually, tribal governments that learn of this might use this to make a big loud show of patriotism and how they refused Hitler's offer. It would make them more popular and cost them nothing.

Indeed, the Pacific States of America, as well as Australia, might see a massive Asian majority (between Japan, Korea, China, Indonesia, Malaya and Filipinos, the biggest population centers, plus a few from Siam and Indochina), with the Whites becoming a minority both in the numerical and...

Indeed. We need the South to secede, as well as the West Coast (because Pacific States of America is a well established trope in Axis victories TL) and the Mormons, and stick a Communist state somewhere (because working-class men who go home from a war that they didn't believe in only to find...

I wonder if all the ACP grandiose plans (France that would like some German territory and vice-versa, Austria that wants Veneto, etc) come from the fact that the old nobility had been mostly swept aside by all the revolutions and wars between 1789 and 1920, and now with all those humiliations...

Wouldn't Japan and Soviet Union come to a compromise ? Japan can't really attack the Soviets beyond Eastern Siberia because logistics, and being at war with the USSR means FBU/Dutch/US embargo and risk of war with FBU and US. Stalin has an obvious interest to close this Siberian front. So, a...

Sure but taking Turkey is gonna be really hard. The RAF will soon get involved (it can easily move there from Cyprus, Levant or Iraq), as well as the Commonwealth army, alongside the Turks and Greeks-in-Exile. And if needed, the Royal Navy too. So, assuming the Axis manages to cross the Straits...

Wouldn't Soviet Union have a food problem too ? IOTL, the USA shipped food to the SU, but ITTL, all shipping lanes (except Iran) are blocked.

I don't see it as likely. The Allies are actually winning in French West Africa, and have taken Italian East Africa, and hold tightly on British (and Belgian) colonies in Subsaharan Africa. They're even landing in Morocco, where the ACP stopped their advance but could not push them out. And on...

Not to mention, it's a good counterweight to the old USA (which may still hold the population and industrial cores of the country), ensuring the old USA never reunites the country and becomes a threat again. Especially as Britain and Canada might support the old USA and form their own power...

I wonder if the ACS will be aligned with Imperial Germany.

During the Second American Civil War, and the War of British Humiliation, I hope that France will launch an intervention in Canada, forcing it to give independence to Quebec (with a ACP-friendly constitutional monarchy and French basing rights). And that France, Spain and Germany will carve up...

What about Japanese, Soviet and British overall resource (not just oil) situation (even if we got a glimpse of Soviet and British oil situation there) ?