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Having been a 'student' of Alternative history for several years now it has occoured to me on many occasions what a massive differnce France not being defeated in May/June of 1940 would have made to world history.
No fall of France and likely Italy makes the only winning move for Italy (ie do nothing), Japan does not invade FIC and this threfore very likely avoids the Pacific/Far East war.
And Germany very likely does not invade Russia in 1941.
Now I fully undertand the why and how regarding their defeat.
What I am interested in discussing and understanding is what does La France have to do in order to avoid it?
Is it simply a case of an earlier rearmament? Lossening those purse strings a year or 2 earlier? Extending the Magionot line to the coast?
Or are their deeper issues that have to be addressed for example the changing governments at the time and as I understand it the governments distrust of the armed forces?
Is the issue larger than France? Does the other European nations such as the Netherlands and Belgium have to likewise take Hitlers Germany more serious earlier and they too need to rearm earlier?
And what would such a defeat of the Invasion of France mean to Germany?