"Because fuck the Kaiser."
"Ah, your majesty? Thats your daughter's job."
"Because fuck the Kaiser."
"Ah, your majesty? Thats your daughter's job."
Well, there's no doubting that this would be a fun TL to read, and I'm not going to deny that I love a good Britwank, but aside from the fact that after the Franco-Prussian War the Germans were the most powerful land force in the world, and Britain remained (as it always was) a Naval power with a small Army and limited military traditions, the very best Britain can hope for is the Germans giving them a pasting.
As others have called it above, conquering small or developing nations was seen as okay, but looking to conquer all of Europe - as Napoleon did - is just going to unite the whole world against you.
Can we call this "operation lionfish". As in the reverse of "sealion"???
Also because it looks fierce in the water but dies within minutes once it comes ashore.
That honestly wouldn't change anything?The best better would be for some formal union of Hannover and Britain (meaning union of goverment not just the Crowns)
Considering Britain has just gone crazy and tried to throw the balance of power in Europe out the window it seems like it would end how Napoleonic France ended
Hey, I just had the best idea for an ASB TL. An ASB causes Queen Victoria's sense of critical thinking to go down the drain, leading to her deciding that they need a second jewel in the British crown, leading to her tricking Parliament into abolishing itself and making her absolute monarch and then getting her most competent staff to figure out how to somehow colonize the most powerful land power in all of Europe. Bismarck himself gets wind of this plan and laughs hysterically about it, assuming it's a joke, until he's informed that yes, Queen Victoria did say that on the public record. Eventually, through a combination of working with the French (who aren't happy about any of this), backstabbing the French, working with the Russians (and then backstabbing the Russians), working with a 30 year early anarchist/communist Russia (Because that makes perfect sense - and then betraying them), working with the Americans (and then reclaiming the treasonous colonials as rightful British clay), Germany, completely sane during all of this, finally realizes what's going on, and tries to sue for peace, only for Queen Victoria to begin the draconian rule of the British Central Europe Company, followed by the British Reich.
The title: "A Stupid Plan - Executed to Perfection".
Someone should make something like that, tbh?
Considering that colonization was based on the idea of the white man's burden and the need to Christianize the world in rhetoric and in practice it served as a way of exploiting less developed areas of the world...Britain wouldn't 'colonize' Germany.
Lithuania did colonize Germany and Britain.What if Lithuania colonized Germany AND Britain?
The theory that Corded Ware formed the early Baltic cultures by mixing with the local Narva and Rzucewo cultures has already been disproven, baby. The hot new theory in Baltistics right now is that Narva was a Baltic culture and the Balts have lived here since the Early Mesolithic.