Re: What if The Axis poweres had a militiant ally in South or Central America?
I do think that while Germany or Japan could have allied with a south american country, the country would have to be relatively strong on it's own, or at least had a lot of people. If i was Germany i would have just used the ports and airfields in Mexio and gotten some Mexican and GErman troops to work together for surgical strikes against American industry. Don't forget, at that time the US was still relatively protected by the oceans. We only have two actual borders to protect, and canada was an ally of ours. So only Mexico posed a threat. We could have easily bashed them.
With actual regards to your point. If they, say MExico, had gone to war with the US, the US and maybe some Candian forces would have quickly returned fire and defeated them, maybe we defend our boarders a little tougher, but i would almost assume that the US would form some sort of Boarder patrol, similar to what we have now, and have them guard the boarder. Then the regular troops can get back to the real war.
Germany loses in the end, even if they divert our attention for a short while, three or four months at the most.
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