Saturday, August 6, 2016
MY SCENARIO FOR HOW WWII COULD AND SHOULD HAVE GONE
It's rather simple and straightforward really.
We let Germany crush Stalin, which could easily have happened, anyway, but for the Western Front, and the Russo Japanese non aggression pact in Asia.
We then pound Hitler almost immediately afterward. We were preparing to do that already.
We then return Germany to an enforced constitutional monarchy, all in one piece (no East Germany bugbear).
We break up the enormous Soviet (former Mongol) Empire into several, at least, constitutional monarchy despotisms, each still enormous, west, south, and east, at least.
No nuclear weapons development for either Germany or the new Russias. Enforced by the West.
Marshall Plan type temporary recovery benefits for Germany and West Russia. Middle Russia and East Russia are on their own! No post Marshall Plan booming of the non communist world.
No NATO. Kennan too thought NATO a mistake, even given the situation back then.
No World Bank, no Atlantic Charter, no Cordell Hull trade regime, no IMF, no UN, no IBDR, etc., etc. No dollar diplomacy.
No Cold War. No booming the Third World.
We pound Mao in and after 1949, because there is then no one there, in Asia, to stop us from doing so, and return the Chinese Emperor, or whoever, to the throne in The Forbidden City.
No support for a continued Jewish homeland in Palestine, Israel.
No more Wilsonianism.
No tears.
No nuclear weapons development for either Germany or the new Russias. Enforced by the West.
Marshall Plan type temporary recovery benefits for Germany and West Russia. Middle Russia and East Russia are on their own! No post Marshall Plan booming of the non communist world.
No NATO. Kennan too thought NATO a mistake, even given the situation back then.
No World Bank, no Atlantic Charter, no Cordell Hull trade regime, no IMF, no UN, no IBDR, etc., etc. No dollar diplomacy.
No Cold War. No booming the Third World.
We pound Mao in and after 1949, because there is then no one there, in Asia, to stop us from doing so, and return the Chinese Emperor, or whoever, to the throne in The Forbidden City.
No support for a continued Jewish homeland in Palestine, Israel.
No more Wilsonianism.
No tears.
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