Wars that could have happened, but didn't.
- Thread starter Rhymehouse
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It would had just seen as new front of WW1. So technically not new war but Sweden just would had been enforced to be allied with Central Powers.
Depends who would had won WW1. That would change pretty much. USA would be more unwillingful to join when one of Entente is aggressor. And Russia would has new front to fight altough not very soon but when Swedes can get foothold on mainland Finland Russia has more doing.
I guess since the war was so finely divided to begin with Sweden would tip it in favor of the CP.
The Swedish left was very much against the war at the time.
What would be ironic would be the CP very nearly (and very narrowly) winning the general war with the help of Swedish support, until heavy losses on the Finnish front, food shortages, and other issues lead to the Swedish government falling to a Communist revolution in 1917 and dropping out of the war.
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Many people in the USA were isolationist until December the 6th 1941. Then they were attacked and a few days later the American DoW passed nearly unanimously.
If Swedish conservative and pro-German establishment somehow managed to join the CP with some minor PoD, then your point would stand. If the Russian Empire "Day in Infamy"-ed Sweden most the Left would be just as on board as the non-extremist Left was in Germany, France, etc.
WWI was pretty popular in all European combatant countries at first, and nationalist feelings running high. Several years and countless deaths later, people's views changed rather steeply. Sweden suffered from food shortages IOTL as it was, and things would be even worse ITTL. By 1917 or so, how the war got started in 1914 would not be as important to most people any longer.
If the Treaty of Lima was never signed between Chile and Peru in 1929, as almost happened without U.S. mediation, it could have set stage for future conflict. If a number of related territorial disputes had kicked off at once (e.g. Chile-Bolivia Atacama Border Dispute) it could lead to a 2nd War of the Pacific between Peru/Bolivia and Chile. If the Chile-Argentina Beagle conflict flares up too as Argentina tries to take advantage of Chile being distracted to the north, and this in turn leads Brazil to directly intervene to maintain the balance of power (or by launching some sort of "Operation 30 Hours" equivalent and sparking a war with Argentina), that could create a South American "WW1"-esque situation maybe?
1 If There was a Second Korean war, France would back it full tilt. Unlike VN Degaulle saw this cause as vital.
They get Aland back. Might give Finland a different monarch and one that sticks.
Very true. Sweden gets Åland and Bernadotte king to Finnish throne. But Sweden is not going to annex Finland. It never would work.
Carl seems more likely since him had still his royal titles left unlike Oscar who lost them due marrying non-royal woman, altough Finnish provisional government might be fine with such thing too. Another question is would Oscar had been intrested anyway.
Another option what I have thought would be prince Wilhelm. And his son Lennart was anyway great-grandson of tsar Alexander II through his mother so there would be some connection with Romanovs and yet quite popular tsar.
What about a Argentina–Chile war? These two have been eyeballing each other and mumbling for a long time...
Mountain troops. However many you have, you'll wish you had more.