Still better than having an austrian puppet Poland.Irbis wrote:Say what?Thanas wrote:Yes there is. Free the baltic states and Lithuania, give Lithuania Russian Poland.![]()
Giving Lithuania Russian Poland is about as good idea as giving USA to Canada or Germany to Austria - it's about as big economic and population difference. Except, wait, it's even worse, as Lithuania in 1918 had huge Polish minority (reverse being not true), to the point Lithuanians were actually minority in their own capital! Any combined state like this would just end up in revolt pretty quickly and just be renamed "Poland" month later.
Perfectly poised? I disagree there. Attacking into Posen and Silesia without having the baltics as a flank to fall on is very hard.So you say the Germans would just let keep Russia a state perfectly poised to strike into economic heartland of Posen and Silesia instead of giving it to the only ally they had? That strikes me as rather dubious idea, especially combined with creating indefensible puppets Germany has no land access to that would be just major drain on German defence commitment. Puppeting Finland before Poland?![]()
Also Germany would have land access to the baltics and you do not need land access to provide enough assistance to Finland considering the territory.
Nobody asked them if they would do it, nobody is going to ask them in a hypothetical German victory.It would create major headache for Germany, similar to the situation of Koenigsberg in 1933, except on much larger scale and with much larger logistical problems. I can see puppeting Poland, and maybe one or two of Baltic states, but Finland? Without 1917 Russian collapse and Lenin's 'peace at any cost' it's completely preposterous. These are not some random pieces of land, it happens to be Russia's only access to Baltic Sea and buffer of their capital, it's one of the last pieces of estate Russia would give willingly.