What if america joined the central powers
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Aaron Fox
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More or less, as -from what I've gathered- Imperial Germany was going for transforming its colonies into nations with trade relations by the time WW1 came around. At least, that appeared to be the honest end-goal.
There was the Mitteleuropa vision if the German liberals would have won out after the end of WWI:
Concept of Mitteleuropa | International Encyclopedia of the First World War (WW1)
Friedrich Naumann’s ''Mitteleuropa'' (1915) was a liberal voice in the largely illiberal German discussion on the future of East Central and South East Europe. His reasoning, based on principles of free trade and voluntary cooperation, did not dominate this debate, which, in consequence...
encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net
An early version of the EU, if you will. Except possibly without France and/or southern Europe.
Aaron Fox
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From my understanding, it was also a plan for Germany's African holdings. Build them into nations, let them do their own thing, and be trade partners.There was the Mitteleuropa vision if the German liberals would have won out after the end of WWI:
Concept of Mitteleuropa | International Encyclopedia of the First World War (WW1)
Friedrich Naumann’s ''Mitteleuropa'' (1915) was a liberal voice in the largely illiberal German discussion on the future of East Central and South East Europe. His reasoning, based on principles of free trade and voluntary cooperation, did not dominate this debate, which, in consequence...
An early version of the EU, if you will. Except possibly without France and/or southern Europe.
Germany can keep Namibia due to its large white population, no? But the rest of them can eventually go their own way, I suppose.
There's Mitteleuropa and Mittelafrika:
Mittelafrika - Wikipedia
Interestingly enough, even black Namibians sometimes embrace even the worst aspects of German culture:
Namibia: Man named after Adolf Hitler wins local election
He usually calls himself Adolf Uunona and insists he has no plans for world domination.
www.bbc.com
"Hitler, now in black!"
Their generation would be content.Next would want MOAR.Or next after that,like in case of WW1 war which started two generations after 1870.
And,by that time,Russia would become strong again,and german slavic colonies would learn to hate germans.And wait for anybody,including russians,to come and liberate them.
Germany can keep Namibia due to its large white population, no? But the rest of them can eventually go their own way, I suppose.
There's Mitteleuropa and Mittelafrika:
Mittelafrika - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Interestingly enough, even black Namibians sometimes embrace even the worst aspects of German culture:
Namibia: Man named after Adolf Hitler wins local election
He usually calls himself Adolf Uunona and insists he has no plans for world domination.
"Hitler, now in black!"
africans embrace it,becouse germans genocided other tribes.In Europe poles,ukrainians and belarussians would hate germans for their crimes against them.
And,since germans would not genocide them,only hold in yoke,they would wait for next war to strike at them.
I doubt that American imperialism would desire reaching as far as Australia and New Zealand and they could find Canada a pain to hold unless their willing to treat 'whites' as badly as they treated 'Indians' or Filipinos during earlier conflicts. It all depends on how deranged Washington is in this scenario.
I suspect given their similar view of a zero sum world and belief of their special character that any such alliance is likely to be very short lived as neither is likely to accept the other as an equal.