By winning decisively, the Poles establish a client state in Ukraine. What happens next?
Your best-case scenario is them somehow managing to build an anti-Soviet, non-German-aligned Central/Eastern European intermarum alliance. Good luck with that, it would make a cool TL. All others, as far as I can see, involve dictatorship, war, and defeat.
Especially not if the Polish government decided these were all stolen lands subject to repolonisation
By winning decisively, the Poles establish a client state in Ukraine. What happens next?
Edit: this could get especially bad if it reinforces the "Russians are pussies" fallacy. After WWI and the Russian Civil War, a lot of people thought they could draw conclusions about Russia as a whole and assumed that, basically, one good kick would bring down the unnatural and rotten structure. If even the POles could just graeb whatever they wanted and get away with it, even more people will come to underestimate the USSR militarily. Someone is bound to get a nasty surprise sooner or later oin that case, and I suspect rather sooner.
Except that Poland didn't *want* a client state in Ukraine. Their goals were to push their borders further east, not anything more or anything less.
Well, IMO Poland establishing such a client state is highly unlikely, because if it'd be small (no Kiev, and certainly nothing east and south of it), then it's not worth it for Poland (which is pretty much what happened in OTL), and Russia is very unlikely to give up the real prize, which is Kiev, Krivyi Rih, Yekaterinoslav (Dnipropetrovsk), Odessa. Anything farther east is impossible unless the Ukrainians themselves start fighting for it.
Blackfox5 said:In cases like this, you either accept the POD or you don't. ctesiphon claims that any client state won't have Kiev and most of Ukraine. I think the words "win decisively" indicates that it would.
MSZ said:Seeing that OTL Lenin was willing to give up everything west of the Dnepr (which would include Kiev and Odessa)