Great Power Death Match

I came across an Article on Wikipedia on Great powers. I saw a table that had all the Great powers in 1900 (Austria-Hungary, British Empire, Empire of Japan, French 3rd rep., German Empire, Kingdom of Italy, Russian Empire, U.S.A). Lets say that these 8 countries were the undisputed world superpowers (as in no other country not named would wanna mess with them). They started gobbling up countries within reasonable- far distance around them (except for themselves). What would happen? What countries would be consumed by who? How would the World look?

Basically a WI thread.
 
I came across an Article on Wikipedia on Great powers. I saw a table that had all the Great powers in 1900 (Austria-Hungary, British Empire, Empire of Japan, French 3rd rep., German Empire, Kingdom of Italy, Russian Empire, U.S.A). Lets say that these 8 countries were the undisputed world superpowers (as in no other country not named would wanna mess with them). They started gobbling up countries within reasonable- far distance around them (except for themselves). What would happen? What countries would be consumed by who? How would the World look?

Basically a WI thread.

It doesn't work that way because they would maintain a balance of power. That gives smaller states the maneuvering room to stay independent. Also, just because a state is minor doesn't mean it would be easy to "gobble up". What's Japan going to gobble? China? Good luck.
 
This is a fun idea but would be better in ASB, because it would be pure ASB for these nations to just start annexing all nations not considered the "great powers".
 
Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny?

USA, Britain, and Japan have the advantage of being island nations, Britain in particular due to the strength of the Royal Navy. Russia is just impossible to invade, period.

You get France, Italy, AH, and Prussia duking it out in Europe, with heavy focus on the Med. The Rhine river gets even bloodier then ITTL. Whoever wins gets to put Europe back together while USA fends off Britain and Japan along its oceans and Russia sits there laughing.

tl;dr, Europe gets torn apart. Again.

EDIT: Abdul, Japan can pretty much cherry-pick SE Asia for rare materials at will. Why on earth would they want to annex China? It's #2 on the 'nations not to invade' list, right beneath Russia.
 
It doesn't work that way because they would maintain a balance of power. That gives smaller states the maneuvering room to stay independent. Also, just because a state is minor doesn't mean it would be easy to "gobble up". What's Japan going to gobble? China? Good luck.

hehe, I dont mean Gobble up Everything, I mean what they can. no Tibet taking China. More like Russia taking Mongolia. Anyways I have to fix the Initial Post, I have a Scenario and I want it to fit :)
 
This is a fun idea but would be better in ASB, because it would be pure ASB for these nations to just start annexing all nations not considered the "great powers".

True, good Idea, Ill post there too, but meanwhile...

Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny?

USA, Britain, and Japan have the advantage of being island nations, Britain in particular due to the strength of the Royal Navy. Russia is just impossible to invade, period.

You get France, Italy, AH, and Prussia duking it out in Europe, with heavy focus on the Med. The Rhine river gets even bloodier then ITTL. Whoever wins gets to put Europe back together while USA fends off Britain and Japan along its oceans and Russia sits there laughing.

tl;dr, Europe gets torn apart. Again.

There we go, this guys really thinking :D
 

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It doesn't work that way because they would maintain a balance of power. That gives smaller states the maneuvering room to stay independent. Also, just because a state is minor doesn't mean it would be easy to "gobble up". What's Japan going to gobble? China? Good luck.

Didn't Japan try that?

IIRC it went badly.
 
I came across an Article on Wikipedia on Great powers. I saw a table that had all the Great powers in 1900 (Austria-Hungary, British Empire, Empire of Japan, French 3rd rep., German Empire, Kingdom of Italy, Russian Empire, U.S.A). Lets say that these 8 countries were the undisputed world superpowers (as in no other country not named would wanna mess with them). They started gobbling up countries within reasonable- far distance around them (except for themselves). What would happen? What countries would be consumed by who? How would the World look?

Basically a WI thread.
I believe the word you're looking for is "imperialism", and that the world would look something like it did in 1913.:rolleyes:
 
I was going to say, isn't this kind of OTL prior to World War 1?

We know how that ends, we're living in it.

True, but you might get some interesting conflicts in North America...?
For example, the U.S might have a go at invading Canada, or Britain & France trying to screw up the U.S, by supporting resistance cells in Mexico, after the U.S invades, or Britain conceding the soverignty of Quebec, to France (Making it a Department of France), in exchange for a mutual defence pact in case of U.S Aggression vis Canada...
This probably would make for a interesting game of Diplomacy, IMHO...
 
This appears to be what we call ASB, as it assumes that the world runs by the same geopolitical mechanisms that Risk does.
 
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