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[–]casparvoneverecBig tiddy respecter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Britain's intervention against Napoleon was a good thing tho. It saved all of Europe from becoming one monolithic hegemony. It did the save against Louis XIV as well.

[–]EthnocratArcheofuturist 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Britain's intervention against Napoleon was a good thing tho.

No, it was a complete catastrophe, just like their intervention against Hitler.

It saved all of Europe from becoming one monolithic hegemony.

How on Earth is that a bad thing? That's exactly what we should want!

[–]casparvoneverecBig tiddy respecter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

How on Earth is that a bad thing? That's exactly what we should want!

Same reason why American hegemony is a bad thing. State rot is inevitable. If one state controls the whole civilization, all are infected by its rot and taken down with it. Western Europe's success is in large part owed to the fact that it never became one blob, and always remained divided into multiple powerful polities: German states, England, France, Italian states, Holland, Sweden etc. This fierce competition averted civilizational rot and promoted fierce competition and innovation.

Ever since it fell under US hegemony since the end of ww2 has it fallen into rot and decay.

[–]EthnocratArcheofuturist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Ever since it fell under US hegemony since the end of ww2 has it fallen into rot and decay.

By the way, by this logic a Nazi hegemony would also have led to such rot decay. You can't possibly believe that.

[–]casparvoneverecBig tiddy respecter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

By the way, by this logic a Nazi hegemony would also have led to such rot decay

Of course, it would have. It happens to every civilization. The pace of ruin and collapse would have depended on who succeeded Hitler If Himmler succeeded him, there would've been some kind of civil war and North Koreanization of Europe over time. If Albert Speer or the Wehrmacht succeeded him, it might've existed for another 100 years but eventually, the same rot would afflict it as well. It happened to more hardcore societies like Rome and Sparta, it would've happened to them as well.

However, my belief is that if the Nazis won ww2 and conquered Russia, and subjugated Britain, it would've led to world-ending nuclear exchange down the line. The US would never accept peace and would arrange a permanent naval raiding policy against German shipping and as well occupy the middle east to deprive it of oil.

There might be some temporary truce by 1948, but eventually, both sides would hit each other with ICBMs. The US would initiate as its elite could never tolerate Nazism. It never happened in our timeline because the American elites had great sympathy for communism. Their view was that capitalism was a superior way to create the egalitarian, anti-racism, world hippy society. Communism was not the right way, but the commies had their hearts in the right place.

Against Nazis, they'd be fight to the death nuclear jihadis.

[–]EthnocratArcheofuturist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

North Koreanization of Europe over time.

Stop, my penis can only get so erect!

they'd be fight to the death nuclear jihadis

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