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To: C19fan

What if the British didn’t intervene and let the Germans defeat France.

In hindsight, I think there’s a very good case that the world would have been much better off as a result.


4 posted on 12/17/2014 8:55:35 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

There has been lots of alternative history about that scenario. Tory historian Niall Ferguson has argued if the Brits stayed out the British would still be a world power comparable to the US. Quick history might of meant no Hitler or Russian Revolution.


5 posted on 12/17/2014 8:57:53 AM PST by C19fan
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To: dfwgator
>"What if the British didn’t intervene and let the Germans defeat France."

Hussein wouldn't have had his blueprint for Fascism.

10 posted on 12/17/2014 9:03:09 AM PST by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall ; / ?)
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To: dfwgator

“The Guns of August” seems to suggest that even with the British intervention, if the Russians had not mobilized as fast as they did (causing the Germans to divert Western-front resources to the Eastern front) the Germans would still have taken Paris and ended the war before September.


11 posted on 12/17/2014 9:12:16 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: dfwgator

Diary of Ann Frank, Schindlers List, etc., just in hindsight.


14 posted on 12/17/2014 10:06:43 AM PST by Cold Heart
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