Total French deaths from WW2 TTL totaled approximately 4.5 million including the colonies (Fig. 1) of which ~500k were military (Fig. 2), meaning civilian deaths totaled ~4 million. However, the colonies were mostly untouched by the war due to France not surrendering and the Libyan front collapsing basically instantly, so the civilian deaths should be overwhelmingly concentrated in the metropole. So....yeah, the French did not have a great time during the war.
I mean, from the most recent post:
So in terms of internal opposition, the French public is already getting frustrated with the war, and this is likely only to intensify as the guerilla phase begins. As for external opposition, we've been providing fairly substantial amounts of support what with all the instructors, "volunteer" pilots, and weapons and supplies we've been sending them, so I wouldn't say "little external opposition" is an accurate statement either. The conflicts in Africa won't be *pretty*, but they're hardly hopeless.
Yeah. Here's hoping those protests escalate and there is not enough domestic support for ruthlessly crushing them. And by "little external opposition" I was referring to how the USA seems extremely unlikely to encourage France to slow down. Plus the conventional phase of the Algerian war will end or at least be wrapping up this turn, so guerilla groups will be all we've got.
Yeah, not gonna happen. The USA is going to make damn sure France holds, for better or worse. If France gets a Franco or Pinochet of its own, it would be perfectly fine with the USA.
Probably.
I would imagine that the higher living standards in the sovjet union would make middle positions like scandinavian social-demographic welfare states less acceptible to the west and cause more polarization in those countries.
Don't see why the Scandinavian countries would hate us we have not attacked Finland instead we talked besides that haven't really cared about them?
They can keep there Frozen land we still have a ton of our own that we are still trying to figure out what to do with even, also makes me imagine that Denmark is going to sell a lot of guns to other countries that what a third option to buy from.
Denmark is a puppet of the USA right now also they lost Greenland to the USA since we took all of Germany
Forgot about that, guess it's going to be Finland again with it's we did not copy anyone's homework ""totally"" guns going about then.
We already have Finland it join us diplomaticly
I thought we just had a land exchange nothing else?
Well they could have called our bluff and have to deal with a actual full out war then the original Stalin trying to show off farce.
There is always going to be fuck ups because armies can only prepare for the war it think it's going to be in not the actual war it ends up fighting in.
It did do that, the lack of war experience caused us to miss a bunch of minor reforms that collectively would've made the early months of the Great Patriotic War far less painful for us.
