Did the US make the correct decision to enter the First World War?

[grumbler]

Well, there is also, in the case of a German victory, the probability of Stalin and the Soviet Union trying to avenge Brest-Litovsk 20 or so years down the line.

If the Germans win, I doubt Stalin ever comes to power.  The military threat to the USSR would be pressing enough that a military bumbler like Stalin was known to be wouldn't have been chosen over the militarily gifted Trotsky.

Without Stalin's industrialization program, I wonder how well the USSR stands up over time.

[derspiess]

And I don't see a victorious Imperial Germany tolerating Trotsky's internationalist shenanigans for too long.

[Tonitrus]

Even with victory, Germany is going to be in rough economic shape for a while...and a Great Depression could still bring about an unhealthy share of communist/socialist unrest in Western Europe (maybe hitting defeated France/Britain harder this time.  And who's to say that some character like DeGaull doesn't end up being France's version of Hitler?  (Minus all the Jewish hate and aryan mysticism).

Hell, there's probably even a Turtledove novel on the subject. 

[Ed Anger]

And I don't see a victorious Imperial Germany tolerating Trotsky's internationalist shenanigans for too long.

OOOO, Strosstruppen burning Moscow. I just got a boner.

[CountDeMoney]

And I don't see a victorious Imperial Germany tolerating Trotsky's internationalist shenanigans for too long.

If Germany had won, there never would've been a Poland to tempt Trotsky in the first place.

[derspiess]

He'd still be tryin' to export him some revolution.

[Ed Anger]

He'd still be tryin' to export him some revolution.

He got an Icepick import.

[CountDeMoney]

Maybe south by southwest, perhaps.  But not due west. 

[jimmy olsen]

Well, there is also, in the case of a German victory, the probability of Stalin and the Soviet Union trying to avenge Brest-Litovsk 20 or so years down the line.

If the U.S. isn't in the war and France is clearly crumbling, the Russians may accept the Germans original demands which IIRC were that Poland and Lithuania be made "independent".

[Sheilbh]

Even with victory, Germany is going to be in rough economic shape for a while...and a Great Depression could still bring about an unhealthy share of communist/socialist unrest in Western Europe (maybe hitting defeated France/Britain harder this time.  And who's to say that some character like DeGaull doesn't end up being France's version of Hitler?  (Minus all the Jewish hate and aryan mysticism).

This is the first time I've ever actually really understood Spellus

[Grinning_Colossus]

Even with victory, Germany is going to be in rough economic shape for a while...and a Great Depression could still bring about an unhealthy share of communist/socialist unrest in Western Europe (maybe hitting defeated France/Britain harder this time.  And who's to say that some character like DeGaull doesn't end up being France's version of Hitler?  (Minus all the Jewish hate and aryan mysticism).

Hell, there's probably even a Turtledove novel on the subject. 

There's a very good Hearts of Iron mod on the subject.

[Razgovory]

No there isn't.

[Valmy]

And who's to say that some character like DeGaull doesn't end up being France's version of Hitler?  (Minus all the Jewish hate and aryan mysticism).

France already had him with General Boulanger.  Yeah...I don't think there was much danger to anybody but France with that sort of thing.

[Agelastus]

No there isn't.

Is this because:

(a) The pedant option: it's actually a mod for Hearts of Iron 2?
(b) The historian option: the scenario is unrealistic?
(c) The Gamer's option: the mod is far too complicated in an effort to avoid railroading and to give each nation, large or small, a unique experience?
(d) Something else?

[Razgovory]

I take exception with the words "Very good".