Night_stalker wrote:Yeah, the League of Nations would've sent a sternly worded letter to Itlay, which is "accidentally" lost in the mail.
Dumbass. The League of Nations was pretty powerless when adressing beligerent members, and Ziggy adressed that.
But in this situation, the self-interest of at least two major members would be endangered - and both France and Britain could easily kick Italys ass.
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"The world owes you nothing but painful lessons" - CaptainChewbacca
"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one." - Wilhelm Stekel
"In 1969 it was easier to send a man to the Moon than to have the public accept a homosexual" - Broomstick Divine Administration - of Gods and Bureaucracy (Worm/Exalted)
Huh, so instead of "WW2" we get "Another colonial war in Africa with France and Britain smacking Italy like a cheap ho".
I suppose the USSR would basically just be wary of a skechy Poland on one side and Japan's war in the East. In fact, given the history, they'd probably think they had more reason to be worried about an aggressive Japan than anything in Europe.
How much of Russia's inter-war armament plans and officer purges depended on Hitler's politics..? Dodging the Versailles Treaty, etc. How much of that would have been done with the Reichswehr and Weimar politics? Would Stalin have been able to keep hold of the USSR so easily without the threat of the Reich? He seems like the kind of guy that people would get tired of fairly quickly without an outside threat...
It is indeed interesting to think of how much really did, in fact, seem to hinge on one guy.
Something about Libertarianism always bothered me. Then one day, I realized what it was:
Libertarian philosophy can be boiled down to the phrase, "Work Will Make You Free."
In Libertarianism, there is no Government, so the Bosses are free to exploit the Workers.
In Communism, there is no Government, so the Workers are free to exploit the Bosses.
So in Libertarianism, man exploits man, but in Communism, its the other way around! If all you want to do is have some harmless, mindless fun, go H3RE INST3ADZ0RZ!! Grrr! Fight my Brute, you pansy!
