I Blame Communism
Banned
Not the Hellenowank! Anything but that!
Hem-hem. Greeks were a minority, and not actually an enormously huge one, even in the Smyrna region and Thrace, by the 20th century and for a long time before, and we wont even start on the Armenians in the east. That's problem one. Problem two is that, as people seem so fond of forgetting, Turkey is a much, much bigger country than Greece. Modern Turkey (not the Ottomans)=Germany. Greece=Belgium. That's the proportions we have going on.
So basically, to satisfy the wierd, unrealistic, and outmoded nationalist desires of a few Hellenophiles with little actual knowledge of the country's history, you've had Belgium invade Germany, win, and take half of it. A few small problems:
-The majority of Belgium's population are now Germans, necessitating Aprthead or ethnic cleansing.
-Germany has become a rugged mountainous land in which properly supressing resistance is nearly impossible for some reason.
-It doesn't matter if the Belgians kill three insurgents for ever Belgain soldier who dies, they're still going to run out first.
-The rest of the world will be completely unwilling to help Belgium's mad and destructive desires for aggrandisement.
-The other half of Germany is ready to sweep out and liberate their compatriots at the right moment.
At some point in this scenario, probably after the failed invasion, since I don't even see it succeeding, the Greeks of Asia are going to flee, be driven out, or suffer from revenge-massacres. Yeah, your timeline is nice to Greeks, alright.
This is a doctrine which the Nazis rather banked on.
It didn't work so well.
If the Second World War (and the earlier parts of the Sino-Japanese war) in the air showed one thing, it's that no matter how much infrastructure you destroy, how heaily you bomb, people will survive, pull together, and carry on.
Hem-hem. Greeks were a minority, and not actually an enormously huge one, even in the Smyrna region and Thrace, by the 20th century and for a long time before, and we wont even start on the Armenians in the east. That's problem one. Problem two is that, as people seem so fond of forgetting, Turkey is a much, much bigger country than Greece. Modern Turkey (not the Ottomans)=Germany. Greece=Belgium. That's the proportions we have going on.
So basically, to satisfy the wierd, unrealistic, and outmoded nationalist desires of a few Hellenophiles with little actual knowledge of the country's history, you've had Belgium invade Germany, win, and take half of it. A few small problems:
-The majority of Belgium's population are now Germans, necessitating Aprthead or ethnic cleansing.
-Germany has become a rugged mountainous land in which properly supressing resistance is nearly impossible for some reason.
-It doesn't matter if the Belgians kill three insurgents for ever Belgain soldier who dies, they're still going to run out first.
-The rest of the world will be completely unwilling to help Belgium's mad and destructive desires for aggrandisement.
-The other half of Germany is ready to sweep out and liberate their compatriots at the right moment.
At some point in this scenario, probably after the failed invasion, since I don't even see it succeeding, the Greeks of Asia are going to flee, be driven out, or suffer from revenge-massacres. Yeah, your timeline is nice to Greeks, alright.
Regarding Greece, if we were to assume that as a WW1 and WW2 Axis power, if Turkey were heavily bombed and experienced heavy hardships, would that diminish the resistant population enough that the Greeks could push inward with little resistance?
This is a doctrine which the Nazis rather banked on.
It didn't work so well.
If the Second World War (and the earlier parts of the Sino-Japanese war) in the air showed one thing, it's that no matter how much infrastructure you destroy, how heaily you bomb, people will survive, pull together, and carry on.