Grenartia wrote:New Bremerton wrote:The Germans and Italians could ditch Nazism and fascism for communism and join forces with Stalin. Ditto the Japanese. Europe and the Asia-Pacific (with the aid of the Chinese Communist partisans under Mao) would be completely overrun. That leaves Africa, the Middle East and the Americas, with the USA being the only powerful nation standing between them and world domination. The commies would be the new Axis of Evil.
At that point, we might as well be asking what would happen if elephants pooped popcorn.
Exactly.
Kowani wrote:I thought this was about semi-plausible ways...
I thought this was a semi-serious (read: not really) hypothetical that has no bearing on the present day, like one of IM's threads. Hence my lack of effort into trying to be realistic. Like Ifreann wrote, they can win by not being Nazis. Didn't read beyond page 1 though.
Hanafuridake wrote:A nation that has been ruled by one family for the past 2000 years could just “go communist.” what?
Internal revolutions can and do happen you know. Look what happened to the Romanovs and the impact the Bolshevik withdrawal from WWI had on Russia's erstwhile allies. And look at Italy now. It's a republic.