Talk:Empire/@comment-185.3.177.19-20170810105843/@comment-2A02:2E02:2A6C:EB00:653E:E0F6:E264:C625-20190708010354

Look at the full size of the British Empire and the French Second Empire in 1914 and tell me a German Victory was not going to influence the world massively...Britain itself had 1/4 of the planet at that point. Giving more land to gunpowder kegs like Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire, and Mittleafrika to the Germans (who had already comitted Genocide on the Herero) was going to ensure another war even more than Versailles. Also it is unlikely that a victory would deflect the Spartaquist uprising, which is the main event that led to the rise of National Socialism, so no, you have not yet dodged Hitler unless the Soviet Union fails miserably and the German communists decide NOT to throw half of Germany into flames. It wasn't the defeat what strained Germany, blaming and unenforced Versailles is Nazi propaganda, it was the colossal war effort, and no reparations of post war Britain or France could remedy that.