So, what hints do we have about the near future so far ITTL?
- According to Hemingway the current "era of peace" ITTL is soon to end in a "grand ballet of death". Sounds cheery. Implication given by the nature of his work is that fascist France and fascist Italy end up allying - France is...
It's probably Jews given France is most likely going to be a fascist country - we know the Third Republic is going to fall, and an entire update wouldn't be dedicated to the rise of Action Francaise if they were irrelevant.
Not to mention that since they're not facing genocide, don't have their backs to the wall, the Red Army won't have the dogged determination that strengthened its fighting spirit so much. They'll be more retreats, more desertions, more surrenders, more outright defections.
Germany was able to...
I can see something like a secret deal on dividing up Eastern and Central Europe + cooperation w/ military development and resource rights. Not an outright alliance.
If France goes fascist, as seems likely, it's possible they'll try and ally with Italy and do some sort of M-R Pact writ large with Stalin - the pariah states of Europe coming together (Hemingway's book about a French/Italian love affair does seem to suggest they're aligned on some level). Spain...
One of the big problems w/ German tank doctrine in the runup to WW2 was that they assumed that tanks wouldn't fight other tanks - which is why the IIIs were initially so undergunned and they developed heavy tanks (the Tiger) really late compared to the other powers. They need something to shock...
We have reference in the text of the TL to German troops in Finland "experiencing conditions they would later face in the Soviet Union" and the memoir of a German general about "the War in the East". It's pretty heavily foreshadowed that Germany will fight the USSR.
Tuchachevsky IOTL was purged...
Biggest point of tension is Yugoslavia and the Dalmatian/Slovenian territories. European powers won't care sufficiently enough about atrocities/wars in Africa to mobilise against it. If it survives to the 1950s the regime can exploit Western anticommunism and oil dividends to last a fair few...
Depending on whether Taiwan/RoC was still a thing, they would definitely have been advocating to take power - somewhat unrealistically IMO. Of course there may also have been Soviet interests in play too - warm Amero-Soviet relations and the Gobi Desert Campaign suggests the USSR was at least...
Like I care!
Also: you're here? That's cool.
EDIT: I am so obviously the terrible Four-In-One. You see, I happen to be simultaneously two Americans, one of whom is a New York pop star, a Norwegian/Finn, and an English teenager living in Belgium, for after delving into the Kabbalah I discovered...
Er, it kinda wasn't. If I did overreact, it was because I saw it as what it was - an argument.
My reply out of order? The phrase has really lost all meaning for you if you consider a reasoned, part-by-part dismantling of your argument 'out of order'.
So you won't be listening to me anymore...