What is a plausible way the Republicans could Win the Spanish Civil war, and if they did what would be the after effects?
Republicans win hitler will attack during fall of France or during his attack on the USSR
The Germans keep going south after France surrenders. The British rush troops to Southern Spain to guard Gibraltar.
There was zero will among the British political classes to support the Spanish government, a factor officially attributed to the advancement of 'peace' and 'neutrality' in Europe but which basically boiled down to the Republic's association, in the minds of prominent Tories, with godless Marxism. If the French Popular Front was unready to take action in its support, there's absolutely no hope of London doing so.If somebody with a bit more sympathy for the democratically elected government is in a position to do something in either Whitehall or Gibraltar, then the Royal Navy can stop the army in Africa getting back to Spain proper. If memory serves, the KM vessels sent to escort them (was one of them Deutschland?) were under strict instructions to turn back if the RN challenged them.