Martin The Mess

If we extrapolate the current war against Ukraine to World War II (as we often do), at this point, Hitler has invaded Poland but suffered defeats near Warsaw and Krakow, lost Poznan and has been locked in grueling battles for almost three years over completely devastated border districts. Accordingly, Great Britain and France have not had to actively enter the war. Hitler, in this reality, is held back by the defenders' colossal efforts. Therefore, there has been no blitzkrieg in Western Europe, no Dunkirk, no fall of Paris, nor the Battle of Britain. Not yet. Meanwhile, Western democracies have spent three years of war in Europe extremely reluctant to ramp up their defense industries to help Poland stop Hitler and save the world from what would follow if Poland were to fall. The Western democracies provide Poland with limited aid but they keep spending months, even years, debating whether they might provoke Hitler into escalating the war—a war in which Hitler has already been throwing everything he can muster onto the battlefield, to reach his goals at absolutely any price. Three years of appeasement and attempts to reason with Hitler allowed Krupp's factories to ramp up military production to full capacity while the Reich carried out mobilization and secured resources coming around the world. Many argue that the best solution would be to rid Europe of this headache by simply forcing Poland to capitulate and turn into a General Government, despite Hitler’s clear and open proclamations of his goal to establish complete dominance of his Reich in Europe and the world, as well as to annihilate all inferior peoples and artificial states, which are meant to become part of the Lebensraum of the original Greater German Reich. Others believe it is necessary to help Poland but only in ways that do not harm their electoral ratings—after all, voters might not understand why it is in their interest to help stop Hitler in Poland now, instead of dying under bombs in Rotterdam later, or storming Omaha Beach with heavy losses a few years later, and then fighting all the way to the banks of the Elbe. Poland, meanwhile, continues to plead for common sense, bleeds out, and heroically fights on. Time is running out.... Axis powers and their infomal ally , the USSR, are supplying Hitler with ammunition and materials in exchange for advanced military technology to fuel their own rearmament and expansionist plans in regions from Northern Europe to the Pacific. Recently, they also sent a small expeditionary corps against Poland, allowing their generals to gain invaluable experience in modern European warfare to be applied in upcoming wars. Meanwhile, in America, the front pages are consumed by various conspiracy theories claiming that, in fact, bleeding Poland is to blame for the war, for daring to refuse to disappear from the map and requesting alliance with the West to protect itself from Nazi aggression. Many are convinced that American industrialists, in collusion with Washington, provoked the war in Europe to launder money, despite Hitler having laid out his ideas about Reich domination and Lebensraum as early as the 1920s in Mein Kampf, and implementing his policy of seizing neighboring countries since 1938. Others eagerly listen to those asseritng that Poland had been developing banned chemical weapons that only target ethnic Germans, making Warsaw the real aggressor, and that Hitler, as in Austria and Czechoslovakia, is merely ensuring the Reich's right to historical justice. Even more people are convinced that sending arms to Poland to defeat Hitler on their soil is a waste of taxpayer money, as there are far greater problems at home. Meanwhile, Hitler has been conducting the most insane anti-American propaganda campaign of hatred and war for years, with Joseph Goebbels and Julius Streicher spreading the ideas of destroying America alongside European capitals and their role in the world. The Abwehr systematically engages in subversive and propaganda efforts to instill anti-Polish hysteria, confusion, and isolationism for the benefit of Germany's war effort. America’s most popular radio host openly hurls profane insults at Poland’s commander-in-chief Edward Rydz-Śmigły, calling him a “warmonger” and accusing Poland of dragging America into its aggressive war against Hitler. Meanwhile, the Axis clearly sees that the West is spineless and divided, easily yielding to blackmail and unwilling to resist even under unique conditions that do not require sending a single soldier to the battlefield. The idea of destroying the U.S. role in the Pacific through a crushing blow to Pearl Harbor gains more traction every day...