The Polish Front

WI America manages to stay out of WW1 (How? Perhaps the Zimmerman telegram is never delivered?) but gets involved in the later Polish-Soviet War, supporting Józef Piłsudski in his desire for a greater Eastern European bulwark against the emerging Soviet Union?

Does Soviet expansionism into Eastern Europe get nipped in the bud two decades early? Or does isolationism take over in the US as in OTL, the Americans leave, and Communism comes to Eastern Europe in the 1930s with the Russians becoming concerned over the rise of fascism?
 
America staying out of WWI butteflies OTL Versailles and most probably the events of the late war away.

Depending on the kind of American neutrality (there's a difference between pro-CP, pro-Entente and true-neutrality) the whole war might have run differently.

Thus getting OTLs political developments in Central Europe are by no means set in stone. Or in other words: Please explain why and how TTLs Europe looks exactly like OTLs Europe.

Edit: Your links are broken, btw. Therefore I don't see whether any of them answers my questions.
 
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WI America manages to stay out of WW1 (How? Perhaps the Zimmerman telegram is never delivered?) but gets involved in the later Polish-Soviet War, supporting Józef Piłsudski in his desire for a greater Eastern European bulwark against the emerging Soviet Union?

Does Soviet expansionism into Eastern Europe get nipped in the bud two decades early? Or does isolationism take over in the US as in OTL, the Americans leave, and Communism comes to Eastern Europe in the 1930s with the Russians becoming concerned over the rise of fascism?

It's also rather questionable how much "support" America could provide and how much good this would do Poland. The outside world wasn't friendly to the young Soviet regime as it was. Britain and France, which were in both practical terms and those of domestic politics much more willing to get involved in central Europe in a military way, already had military missions in Poland. The fact is, Poland was a middling and recently recreated nation having conflicts with pretty much every neighbour. It came off pretty well from its birth-pangs: if the Soviets had just stopped at the Curzon line and kept what they'd held rather than reaching for Warsaw, I don't think Poland would have been in a position to retake the "Kresy".

Holding Kiev wasn't really possible with outside intervention limited to OTL 's support for anti-Moscow factions. Why would anyone, least of all America, be willing to escalate into actual war with Russia in order to fulfil Pilsudski's rather unworkable plan? How exactly the Intermarum federation was supposed to work is something Pilsudski never made clear. How was Polish rule over vast non-Polish territories to be legitimised? the obvious candidate, Ukrainian nationalism, had its heartland, its only area of real mass appeal, in territories Poland considered its own. Really, taking Lwow and Vilnius and holding them was the best option. If anything, the Poles already went far enough east to be capturing nothing with each mile but liability.
 
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Indeed and to that degree I don’t consider the Soviet annexation of ‘’Eastern Poland’’ to be unjustified given that Ethnic Pole’s only made up about 30 to 40 % of ''the Kresy’s'' population. (Plus the second republic gained those lands by force to begin with.)

As for US aid I dont see the US public backing a long-term commitment of troops to that part of the world. So the Poles may get martial aid, which in turn may allow them to claim moar land as per Pilsudski's plan (read Polish Empire). So Poland would in the end gain even restive and resentful Ukrainians, Byelorussians & Lithuanians to rule over.:eek:

This would only serve to really piss off the Soviets, without particularly weakening them and once the U.S.S.R recovered from the ravages of the civil war Poland would face a 1 on 1 war against the whole, undistricted Red Army...In say the mid 30's.
 
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