You don't intern the ships, you confiscate the cargo
with what ships? the U boats?
You don't intern the ships, you confiscate the cargo
German surface fleet. Plus with the war over the French fleet would be usable as well. Uboats too could be used to pickets, while there would be air patrols and radio intercepts to enable an economy of surface ships to intercept merchant shipping. Same way the Germans confronted the Arctic convoys IOTL minus the shooting.with what ships? the U boats?
German surface fleet. Plus with the war over the French fleet would be usable as well. Uboats too could be used to pickets, while there would be air patrols and radio intercepts to enable an economy of surface ships to intercept merchant shipping. Same way the Germans confronted the Arctic convoys IOTL minus the shooting.
A blockade wouldn't mean assaulting them. Just signaling for them to submit to inspection per international law.Sounds like the easiest way to pull Britain back into the war, assaulting British merchant ships on the high seas.
A blockade wouldn't mean assaulting them. Just signaling for them to submit to inspection per international law.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contraband
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Declaration_concerning_the_Laws_of_Naval_War
If Britain was compelled to exit WW2 by negotiated peace, what makes you think they'd want to restart it?Yes, but the purpose of the RN has always been to maintain the freedom of the seas for the merchant navy. The Germans might get away with it the first time they tried, the second time would find the RN playing escort duties all the way to Russia.
Also as your link notes, both the UK and Germany ignored the London Declaration in WWI.
To finish the job.If Britain was compelled to exit WW2 by negotiated peace, what makes you think they'd want to restart it?
Why leave the war at all if they were capable of finishing the job? Plus any government that had to make peace is going to be toppled in the next election and the nation will probably be in an economic mess.To finish the job.
If the UK has been forced out of the war in 42 due to it stalemating, as soon as it all kicks off on the eastern front, the U.K. will be supporting Russia for all its worth. U.K. Foreign policy has always been to prevent a continental hegemony forming and so like with Napoleon, bankroll the opposition.
Why leave the war at all if they were capable of finishing the job? Plus any government that had to make peace is going to be toppled in the next election and the nation will probably be in an economic mess.
Given the Axis pact Britain resuming the war would bring Italy and Japan right in, which would be a worse situation than they left behind, plus still no financial support from the US.Because the UK by itself isn't able to finish the job but when nazi germany invades the ussr, the situation becomes very different. There is a massive difference between being in a war which is a never ending stalemate and that has a negotiated settlement which reflects that and one that has become very winnable.
1) I would guess that a White Peace has resulted from a stalemate. The BCE can't 'finish the job' alone and it is not getting enough support from the US to keep it fighting alone. It may break with the US over the latter's demands for it to join the embargo against Japan, preferring to appease Japan rather than risk it starting a third front.Why leave the war at all if they were capable of finishing the job? Plus any government that had to make peace is going to be toppled in the next election and the nation will probably be in an economic mess.
Given the Axis pact Britain resuming the war would bring Italy and Japan right in, which would be a worse situation than they left behind, plus still no financial support from the US.
The treaty would reflect the changed situation of peace after the deal with Britain. If Britain makes peace, then the government in exile of the Dutch would too...which means DEI oil becomes available to Japan, though Japan would be concerned with US intentions in the future. If the Germans held their oil lifeline via the Dutch, they'd be obligated to help in the case of British reentry.That's a very interesting reading of the Tripartite Pact that you are making.
Article 3 is the important one with "They further undertake to assist one another with all political, economic and military means if one of the Contracting Powers is attacked by a Power at present not involved in the European War". As the UK was involved in the European war when this was signed, Japan is only getting involved if it wants to, not because it is treaty bound.
Now if there is still an US oil embargo on Japan, I would personally think they have more than enough to be worrying about, what with the US looming and a never ending war in China.
Why would the soviet military improve in the two years between OTL Barbarossa and ATL Barbarossa with no fighting but the nazi military stagnate and fail to improve? T-34s were only truly mass produced once the Nazis invaded, before the fighting proved their quality, there was still resistance to their becoming the main tank.
For one, the Russians would have adapted into a modern fighting force (T34Ms, monoplanes, etcetera.)
Fourth, German tank designs, though good and improving by 43, would be somewhat under powered and stunted without hard lessons learned in Russia in 41.
Second, with the purge over, some of the new Soviet commanders would be a little more confident.
Third, no way Hitler can keep a full war footing after a year of peace. The Nazis had trouble selling the war and its sacrifices to begin with, what sold it to the German people is that it was a battle for their very survival. If Germany knocks Britain out of the war by 42, it would be hard to justify totler krieg between Summer 42 to Summer 43.