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To what possible end? Stalin generally acted from cold strategic calculation when it came to foreign policy.

Because Germany just invaded his only friendly nation in Western Europe? Turning it around Germany may not invade Republican Spain for...

The Germans can invade Spain successfully, but it will create serious problems. Firstly Vichy is technically neutral, letting the...

This still wouldn't all be super easy and friction free. This forces the Wehrmacht into western/southwestern European uninterrupted...

They could try but Salazar wasn't a big fan of Hitler and Mussolini IIRC, his right-wing dictatorship being very different from fascist...

Spain after SCW would be really vulnerable and weak so if Hitler indeed wants (probably) invade Spain it shouldn't be difficult even if...

Germany definitely uses the momentum after 1940 to invade Spain and overthrow the Republic. Even with the Spanish terrain the invasion...

Sorry but you are wrong here, reclaiming Alsace-Lorraine and destroying the French army were prerequisites for turning east, the intent...

There was no alliance in 1939 and all that really united the British and the French was the security guarantee to Poland. Once Germany...

The only way Rhodesia survives is if Zimbabwe Rhodesia survives. But even that's an extreme if.

There exist example of Communist countries placing realpolitik above ideology when making alliances. *cough* Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact...

Rhodesia was doomed from Independence more or less, unless you can come up with a way for the Portuguese to keep the war going(american...

Quite. The Soviets could come up with arguments in favour of imperialism, notably in praising Soviet rule in Central Asia as a...

No, not going to happen. Soviets were big fans of decolonization and would have seen Rhodesia as a British Imperial relic.

They were "cooked" when they decided, years after most African countries had majority rule, that they wanted to maintain white supremacy...