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Old March 16th, 2008, 05:48 PM
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Default Re: Spain joins Axis

Oh, please! Who needs Babelfish when you have a polyglot aboard!

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Originally Posted by Jan7 View Post
In my humble opinion, if Spain had joined the Axis Germany would have won WW2. Probably Hitler would have deployed his armed forces - land, sea and air - over all our territories, including Morocco, Canary Islands and Equatorial Guinea and others overseas, while avoiding a class-ridden and very ineffective army such as ours after the Spanish Civil War.
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All of these would have become an immense platform for observation and strike.

Under these circumstances the United Kingdom could have been surrounded, isolated much more easily and defeated.
In any case, it was hard for me to avoid the "tradutore = tradittore" syndrome (translator = traitor), as I don't agree for reasons I said in posts above.

And in the reply there is no mention of Spain's intentions towards Portugal, maybe to in order to spare my feelings
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