Talk:Germany

From Turtledove

Someone want to add 20px pictures of the flags to the ItPoME Reich list? By the way, the GGR is a seperate entity from Germany and should have a proper article, not a redirect page.Turtle Fan 02:31, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Yes, but GGR article and the article for Germany in ItPome and WW were identical. TR

[edit] Cold War

Ok, so did Germany turn to a cold war with Russia or the U.S.? TR 15:26, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

It seems to me that there would be two cold wars - one between Germany and Russia, and another between Japan & the US. The USA had basically won in the 2nd Great War the position that OTL USA had won in 1898 (minus the Philippines and Guam). With the necessity of guarding the former Confederate States, the USA couldn't afford a global foreign policy, and neither could Germany. With France and Britain basically knocked out as strategic powers, all that would be left is Russia. With the Confederacy knocked out as a strategic power, whatever attention that wasn't absorbed by guarding the Confederates would be taken up by Japan. Neither victorious power (USA & Germany) could afford to immediately take on its nearest antagonist immediately after the 2nd Great #War, and this period of breathing room would allow Russia & Japan to develop superbombs of their own, a la the Soviet Union in 1949.

I agree with your assessment. My question came before I'd read IatD. Some who had read it revised the article to say Germany settled into a Cold War with Russia. Someone else (who probably hadn't read the book) changed it to say a cold war with the U.S. I think it's been revised since then anyway. TR 01:31, 13 October 2007 (UTC)