Earliest Plausible Post-WWI European Conflict?

How soon after the dust has settled after WWI can we reasonably expect a major armed conflict in Europe? By ‘major’ conflict I understand war with at least one of European Power directly involved and lasting at least six months. Assume POD no earlier than 1922.
 
How soon after the dust has settled after WWI can we reasonably expect a major armed conflict in Europe? By ‘major’ conflict I understand war with at least one of European Power directly involved and lasting at least six months. Assume POD no earlier than 1922.

i think logically ww2 was the earliest....after 29 it was hard enough dealing with internal stuff let along external...plus many of the powers were pretty buddy buddy int he west so half of its excluded to being with....

you could have trotsky or lenin live longer perhaps, and mabye go on the offensive to spread communissum a bit, but thats unlikly given the civil war just ended/ or would contiunue for longer
 
With a high degree of probability of losing early when the rest of the world gangs up on it.
Not to mention the low likelyhood of Trotskist Soviet Union in the first place. Still, it could potentially be done and be an interesting TL. Casting the Red Net.
Poland falling to the Communist and then Germany getting involved *insert spiral*.
That would require POD before 1922, wouldn't it?
 
Well, the Austrian civil war in 1934 could theoretically bring Mussolini's Italy (technically a great power!) and Hitler's Germany in on opposite sides, but I'm not sure if you could take what was OTL a four-day skirmish of a conflict and stretch it out over six months, though.

A German civil war is also always possible at some point prior to Hitler's solidifying his control over the Reich.
 
Polish and German border skirmishes getting even more severe, threatening Germany proper. Britain or France would not like that.

I also subscribe to a Polish-Soviet war where Soviet forces do much better. That will also threaten Germany, and put the thing on collision course with Britain and France.

Whether it would be a "continuation" of WWI or get into a "real" war is something else.

Ivan
 
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