Post 1945, what country could become as much as a threat as Nazi Germany?

Possibly an Iran that tries to form the Shiite Crescent by force and succeeds, and gets nukes in the process. Sort of ASB, however, as the Russians would pinch them from the North mercilessly if they tried that.

Iran avoids islamic revolution - however, islamic revolution happens in some other coutries.

War on terror starts a bit earlier as OTL.

Westernized Iran (American ally, dictatorship of the emperor) starts to invade neighbouring countries on the pretext of fighting islamic terrorism and bringing western values to these countries.

When Iran invades the Arabian Peninsula, everybody realizes that this country has grown to big and is going to control the major part of the earth's oil.

Iran is stopped by an international coalition.
 
How about the Vatican. They can threaten with eternal damnation so how do you defend against that?

The same way most pro-choice Catholics do in the US who are denied communion by their Parishes: Sigh and move on.

Or are you talking about some ultra-orthodox France+Italy combo (say Vichy never happens and the countries have a strong militant Catholic revival.)
 

Minty_Fresh

Banned
The same way most pro-choice Catholics do in the US who are denied communion by their Parishes: Sigh and move on.

Or are you talking about some ultra-orthodox France+Italy combo (say Vichy never happens and the countries have a strong militant Catholic revival.)
Pro-choice Catholics generally only see that happen if they are public and unrepentant for their opposition to the unborn (like being a politician or a public figure of some sort). Then again, the denial of communion is a pretty significant act.

Spain was probably the only hyper-Catholic country that could have had expansionist desires backed up by American security guarantees. Perhaps they decide like Portugal to reverse decolonization by force.
 
Arab Republic survives and thrives consisting of Egypt, Syria, and Iraq. Oil revenue is used to buy modern weapons and Soviets provide security against American incursion. Libya is invaded and annexed due to Qaddafi's insane policies and the animosity between Libya and Egypt. Iran's Revolution leads to vicious destabilization, which the Republic intervenes in. So now the Arab Republic consists of Egypt, Libya, Iraq, Syria, and the oil rich regions of Iran, the rest being a protectorate. With that much control of the oil supply, they manage to sway American opinion with threats of an energy crisis and remain safe with the Soviets as an ally. Nukes by the 1980s make it untouchable and it launches an invasion of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to seal its dominion over the Middle East threatening WWIII between the Arab Republic and the Soviets against the US. Just an idea.
 

Minty_Fresh

Banned
Arab Republic survives and thrives consisting of Egypt, Syria, and Iraq. Oil revenue is used to buy modern weapons and Soviets provide security against American incursion. Libya is invaded and annexed due to Qaddafi's insane policies and the animosity between Libya and Egypt. Iran's Revolution leads to vicious destabilization, which the Republic intervenes in. So now the Arab Republic consists of Egypt, Libya, Iraq, Syria, and the oil rich regions of Iran, the rest being a protectorate. With that much control of the oil supply, they manage to sway American opinion with threats of an energy crisis and remain safe with the Soviets as an ally. Nukes by the 1980s make it untouchable and it launches an invasion of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to seal its dominion over the Middle East threatening WWIII between the Arab Republic and the Soviets against the US. Just an idea.
If the Arab Republic was ever that powerful, they would not be going into Iran but rather would be invading Israel, or perhaps Jordan first.
 
The problem with an off-the-rails India, or even China, is that their ability to project power is awfully limited. If India went really crazy, they could at best expand into either Southeast Asia, or make a play for Central Asia, neither of which were high on the list of anyone's priorities. Same goes for China: even a nuclear armed, bugfuck crazy China can still really only fuck up the USSR, SE Asia, and maybe Japan. While both countries could, if they wanted to, kill a lot of people, they wouldn't be seen as threats to civilization ala the Third Reich (mostly because they'd be waging wars of territorial conquests in proverbial backwaters, not continental Europe, and that they wouldn't be massacring Europeans).
 
What about Argentina? They had a decent industrial base, fairly good population base. They were a Loooong way from any country that would have to try to invade them. What if they got a little imperialistic with their neighbors? If they gobbled up Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia they would become fairly self sufficient in raw materials.
 

hipper

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By "threat", I mean they have enough WMD's that nobody directly invades and attacks them, they have some geopolitical allies across the globe like the Axis, they actually are a stable state that will lasts for decades like North Korea,but stronger and scarier, etc. At most they could become a third superpower, at least they are a regional power that despite horrendous human rights abuse or other ghastliness, nobody not even the USA wants to touch it ,at least too much, by the present day. Ideally, they shouldn't be an American or Soviet ally, but they could start out as one before spiraling into a beast of a nation as their control over it erodes over time.

America
 
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