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A comment on Dragon’s Teeth – Stopping Tanks in Their Tracks. Parent comment

Re:Dragon’s Teeth – Stopping Tanks in Their Tracks by foobarian on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @03:42PM (#33524031)
> Yes, France still fell in the end

For a little bit, anyway. But what does that actually mean? I often wonder what would have happened had Germany not pursued genocide, and just stopped at France. It's not like the French people would magically turn German overnight. Would the resulting entity end up like a confederacy?

Same reasoning with Napoleon, too. What if they had stopped before the Russia disaster?

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Re:Dragon’s Teeth – Stopping Tanks in Their Tracks by bluGill on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @04:19PM (#33524445)
Poland has treaties with France and England: both were in process of mobilizing after the fall of Poland. I think it is inevitable that England would have at least made some attempt at war.

Though I wonder if Hitler could have made things worth if he had not started the Eastern front. (I'm not clear on how that started, and Stalin wasn't to be trusted)

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