Which country would you wank the most in a WWI TL of yours?

Which country to wank in a WWI TL?


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Question -- what would be a good example of a Greek Wank, megalia idea or otherwise, using a WWI PoD (as opposed to just altering the Greco-Turkish War)? Is the trick to get Greece to join the Allies earlier? To curb the Ottomans earlier? Something else?
 

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The Ottomans because Sykes-Picot gave us some ugly borders.
 
Eire

I would love to see how well Ireland could come out of the war, without verging into ASB territory.
 

TFSmith121

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Brazil...

Brazil (or at least, a "Brazil"-like nation state)...although this has to push "WW I" to the Eighteenth Century.

Departure point is very early - Treaty of Tordesillas line is east-west, rather than north-south, perhaps - and the end result is that by the end of the Anglo-French wars (i.e. World War I) in the early Nineteenth Century, there are essentially three powers in the Western Hemisphere. North to south:

U.S - anglophone federal republic; includes what would have become BNA (former New France, Acadia, etc) plus what we would see as the US of 1820 or so;
Mexican Empire - includes Central America and the Caribbean; largely Spanish-speaking;
Brazilian Empire - includes the entirety of South America; largely Portuguese speaking.

Potential zones of conflict are the northern frontiers of Mexico/western frontiers of the US; southern Central America/northern South America and West Indies; and the various remnants of the European colonial empires, plus frontiers with the more developed indigenous societies.

Europeans are, presumably, exhausted/focused on Europe and the Med after (essentially) five decades of warfare.

Could make for an interesting Nineteenth Century for all concerned.;)
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A little Greece-wank...

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If we go for what has never been done, I don't think anybody did a Korea-wank, not in a WWI TL.

Korea had been occupied for five years by the time WW1 occurred, and not only was Japan one of the most militarily successful countries of the war, but in the event of a Central Powers victory (Japan was Allied), they would want a strong power in the eastern Pacific to prevent Russian revanchism. It could conceivably be possible, if unlikely with a massive CP victory against Japan, and Russian balkanization. However, it would be close to ASB for Korea to not become another constantly swapped colonial territory in that scenario.
 

Kingpoleon

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Brazil (or at least, a "Brazil"-like nation state)...although this has to push "WW I" to the Eighteenth Century.

Departure point is very early - Treaty of Tordesillas line is east-west, rather than north-south, perhaps - and the end result is that by the end of the Anglo-French wars (i.e. World War I) in the early Nineteenth Century, there are essentially three powers in the Western Hemisphere. North to south:

U.S - anglophone federal republic; includes what would have become BNA (former New France, Acadia, etc) plus what we would see as the US of 1820 or so;
Mexican Empire - includes Central America and the Caribbean; largely Spanish-speaking;
Brazilian Empire - includes the entirety of South America; largely Portuguese speaking.

Potential zones of conflict are the northern frontiers of Mexico/western frontiers of the US; southern Central America/northern South America and West Indies; and the various remnants of the European colonial empires, plus frontiers with the more developed indigenous societies.

Europeans are, presumably, exhausted/focused on Europe and the Med after (essentially) five decades of warfare.

Could make for an interesting Nineteenth Century for all concerned.;)
Best,

This is part of the reason I put this in pre-1900. However, it mostly was because I have never seen a TL with a pre-1900 POD about WWI. :(
 

TFSmith121

Banned
Fair enough - so what do you think of a

This is part of the reason I put this in pre-1900. However, it mostly was because I have never seen a TL with a pre-1900 POD about WWI. :(

Fair enough - so what do you think of a "multi-polar" Western Hemisphere?

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