battlevonwar -> RE: Portugal: help needed (9/15/2020 10:31:35 PM)
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Allies considered invading Spain! "At Casablanca the Allied military leaders were persuaded that Spain had turned awayfrom the Axis and that Germany no longer had the forces to invade it. Indeed, the Allies were prepared, atleast on a planning basis, to consider their own invasion of Spain in order to ensure access to theMediterranean." (resource)https://1997-2001.state.gov/regions/eur/rpt_9806_ng_spain.pdf What is fact now and fiction 70something years ago is strange. This is a simulator of what could be, want huge consequences for such an action or a huge possible accident from the situation go ahead! Yugoslavia may have gone Axis and may gone Communist just like Bulgaria did(Finland too when all hope was lost) the instant it was feasible. The Balkans were a nightmare and alliances there/wars there shifted up until just a few years ago. Very easy for people to manipulate the place(extract bunches of Corps for use on the Eastern Front, not so easy) Only the Romanians, Hungarians, Slovaks and Finns were going to be at all helpful(and actually a hinderance) in that regard.
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