A challenge inspired by another thread.
If Turkey picked team Axis this would have changed a lot. Military access to the middle east. The Suez canal and Egypt fall. Axis get Egyptian and maybe some Saudi oil. Not to mention the options this would open up should the Axis go for Russia.
I gather that OTL Britain was paying Turkey a lot not to do this.
I present a scenario deemed implausible in other threads. Your challenge: come up with a plausible one.
Hitler dies during the fall of France. In the chaos where Goering takes power, the Dunkirk halt order is butterflied, no evacuation. Goering acts as he said he would have liked to at Nuremburg. He does some form of Operation Felix without Franco's consent expecting Franco to blink and try and preserve neutrality. He is as lucky as the Germans were in France. Malta and Gibraltar fall. Turkey decides they can be on the winning team joining the Axis by enabling a second front against Egypt and the Suez Canal. Goering offers them whatever they want (Cyprus, Syria, whatever can be taken from Britain)
If Turkey picked team Axis this would have changed a lot. Military access to the middle east. The Suez canal and Egypt fall. Axis get Egyptian and maybe some Saudi oil. Not to mention the options this would open up should the Axis go for Russia.
I gather that OTL Britain was paying Turkey a lot not to do this.
I present a scenario deemed implausible in other threads. Your challenge: come up with a plausible one.
Hitler dies during the fall of France. In the chaos where Goering takes power, the Dunkirk halt order is butterflied, no evacuation. Goering acts as he said he would have liked to at Nuremburg. He does some form of Operation Felix without Franco's consent expecting Franco to blink and try and preserve neutrality. He is as lucky as the Germans were in France. Malta and Gibraltar fall. Turkey decides they can be on the winning team joining the Axis by enabling a second front against Egypt and the Suez Canal. Goering offers them whatever they want (Cyprus, Syria, whatever can be taken from Britain)
Goering: The Mediterranean Strategy
The War Crimes testimony of Hermann Goering, illustrated, linked, and catagorized for easy reference.
gooring.tripod.com
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