View Single Post
  #2 (permalink)  
Old December 27th, 2003, 10:29 PM
Friedrich's Avatar
Friedrich Friedrich is offline
Ace
 
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Citizen of the world, though quite misantropic!
Posts: 6,393
Friedrich will become famous soon enough
As I stated in the earlier discussion; militarily speaking, I don't see major repercussions in the war, since the British would have implemented a convoy system anyway and the Germans would have starved even more than they actually did.

And thanks to the Allied technological, logistical and numerical superiority, Germany would have been defeated after all. Just by mid 1919, I suposse, because of its lack of men reserves and food.

I can see further consequences, much more important. The first, that a wilder and bigger revolution might have happened in Germany. Maybe a full-scale civil war, though the stablishment of a bolshevist régime is still very unlike. And the second, and most important, Great Britain, France, Italy and Belgium would have pressed even more at Versailles and a much better treaty would have been created, without Wilson's unfounded idealism. France might have annexed the Rheinland and made the Rhine her new border, along with harsher measures against Germany.
__________________
"War is less costly than servitude, the choice is always between Verdun and Dachau." - Jean Dutourd, French veteran of both world wars

"A mon fils: depuis que tes yeux sont fermes les miens n’ont cessé de pleurir." - Mère française, Verdun
Reply With Quote