No assistance to Turkey in Greco-Turkish war

BigBlueBox

Banned
For whatever reason, the Soviets are either unable or unwilling to provide any support whatsoever for the Turks, either monetarily or materially. No other Great Power decides to sell weapons to the Turks. How does this affect the outcome of the war?
 
Could the Greeks keep all of thrace?

That's doable in most TLs aid or no aid. Aid wise, I don't have the exact numbers handy right now but Soviet aid and what the French left behind in Cilicia and sold afterwards amounted to over 80,000 rifles combined, a bit less than a couple thousand machine guns, a few dozen aircraft and quite a bit of artillery on top of what the Italian sold. The Turkish western army in August 1922 was 208,000 men. So you've removed something in the order of 40-60% of its line strength, a smaller fraction of its artillery and most of the air force. Not good for the overall correlation of forces. Of course removal of Soviet aid could be quite important way earlier as it removes critical financing and arms from the Nationalist side in late 1920 and 1921 already...
 

BigBlueBox

Banned
What exactly was the motive for the Soviets to assist the Turks? Helping “fellow revolutionaries” seems like a poor reason when Kemal’s nationalists were obviously not Communist. Geopolitically, if Russia could not control the straits wouldn’t it be best that the straits were controlled by two separate countries so that no single country could block Russian transit? And if it had to be controlled by one country wouldn’t it be more advantageous for that country to be the one with lower population and more enemies?
 
What exactly was the motive for the Soviets to assist the Turks? Helping “fellow revolutionaries” seems like a poor reason when Kemal’s nationalists were obviously not Communist. Geopolitically, if Russia could not control the straits wouldn’t it be best that the straits were controlled by two separate countries so that no single country could block Russian transit? And if it had to be controlled by one country wouldn’t it be more advantageous for that country to be the one with lower population and more enemies?

The Soviet Union was first at war with the Entente and then hostile to it. Same way this led to the Soviet-German pact it brought Soviet aid to Kemal. Better a revolutionary regime allied, or at a minimum friendly to Moscow than an Entente ally closely linked to Britain like Greece.
 
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