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I vaguely remember a discussion sometime ago about how the Entente would have done without US intervention in WWI. It went back and forth for a while with the usual points made on Brest-Litovsk, Austro-Hungarian sepratist movements and general war-weariness, untill someone who's name escapes me made an intresting point.
(I don't remember whose quote this is, if you know then please tell me so I can but it in a proper quote box)

"Then there is the sticky issue of the Wilson administration finally being willing to confront the Entente over the blockade issue in 1917; after cutting of loans to the Entente, US businesses wanted trade with the continent again and Germany had amassed a large gold stockpile during the war. Without the declaration of war glossing over this problem, by mid-to-late 1917 the US will be pressing the Entente on the issue, which they will have to back down on or face the prospect of USN escorted convoys of merchantmen seeking to dock in German ports."

This presents an intresting scenario. Suppose the Entente start getting pissed at the US for flouting there blockade and aiding a starving Germany? What if they decide that desperate times call for desperate measures, and that maybe a U-boat campaign against US shipping to Germany is called for? As anyone can see, this will bring the Americans into the war in the same way that Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare did in OTL.

Hence, we get our POD. Americans on the side of the Central Powers. Where will this new American theatre be, will it be a massed land campaign against Canada? Will it be a naval campaign in the Carribean? Will they try to send troops to Europe in a sort of primitive D-Day landing? Okay that last point is ASB, but rule of cool and all that :cool:
Anyway, what do you guys think?
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