Post by futurist on Jun 19, 2016 3:43:18 GMT
You Are the Kaiser of a Victorious Germany in World War I--Your Goal is to Make Both Latvia's and Estonia's Population German-Majority by 2016; How Exactly Do You *Successfully* Do This (*Without Any* Indecent Behavior)?
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Since I am an American who is certainly *extremely* interested in Manifest Destiny (albeit an American who obviously *strongly* dislikes what happened to the Native Americans afterwards), I felt compelled to ask this question here:
Let's say that you are the Kaiser of Germany in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Also, let's say that you appoint strong Chancellors who are willing to push through whatever policies you prefer. In addition to this, let's say that, under your reign, Germany is more careful with naval expansion and less provocative in its foreign policy. Also, let's say that you tell your generals to focus on a long war rather than on a short war and to use Moltke the Elder's Plan for defense in the West and a limited offensive in the East rather than using the Schlieffen Plan.
Anyway, let's say that World War I still breaks out sometime in the mid-1910s in this TL due to some crisis getting out of control. However, in this TL, Germany *doesn't* invade Belgium in World War I and thus both Britain and the U.S. remain neutral in this TL's World War I (which in turn means that there is *no* British blockade of Germany during World War I in this TL). Thus, in this TL's World War I, French troops get mauled by Germany (which is purely on the defensive in the West at the start of World War I in this TL) as they try to invade Germany while the same thing happens to Russian troops in the East (as in, Germany allows Russian troops to penetrate a little into German territory before mauling them). Afterwards, Germany remains exclusively on the defensive in the West while slowly and gradually beginning to advance deeper and deeper into Russian territory. (Also, for the record, during this TL's World War I, you keep ambitious German generals such as Hindenburg and Ludendorff at arm's length in order to prevent them from seizing too much power.) After three or four years of warfare, Russia cracks, descends into revolution, and capitulates to Germany. Afterwards, Germany is able to launch an *extremely* massive offensive in the West and to quickly defeat and overwhelm France, thus making France capitulate to Germany as well. (Indeed, the lack of British and American manpower to help the Franco-Russians in this TL makes an eventual Franco-Russian defeat in this TL's World War I virtually inevitable, in my honest opinion.)
In the post-World War I peace treaty in this TL, Germany acquires resource-rich Briey and Longwy as well as the rest of Lorraine and some French colonies from France. Meanwhile, Germany acquires Poland, *all* of the Baltic states, and *maybe* Ukraine, the Caucasus, and/or (probably *much* less likely) Central Asia from Russia in this peace treaty. In addition to this, both France and Russia are forced to have permanent limitations on the size of their militaries as well as to pay *extremely* large amounts of reparations to Germany for the next several decades.
Anyway, you are now the Kaiser of a victorious Germany in World War I. In addition to this, by this point in time, you have become fascinated by the U.S.'s 19th century settlement and territorial expansion in the form of Manifest Destiny. Thus, you want to implement a German version of Manifest Destiny in Latvia and Estonia (due to their relatively low population density and centuries-long history of German rule and German domination) and want to make both Latvia and Estonia have an ethnically-German majority population (and preferably a *large* majority) by 2016 (but preferably as early as possible). Also, since you are a decent Kaiser, you certainly *don't* want to resort to *any* Nazi-like tactics such as genocide, ethnic cleansing(s), and expulsion(s) in order to achieve this goal of yours.
Anyway, how exactly do you *successfully* accomplish this task? Also, for the record, just like in our TL in 1918, the ethnically German nobility of Latvia and Estonia (the Baltic Barons) have offered to help you out in regards to this by offering to donate one-third of their total lands and estates so that these lands can be used for ethnic German settlement.
In addition to this, though, I would like to point out that the German people might be (or become) hungry for change, democratization, and liberalization after the end of this TL's World War I. Thus, your and your descendants autocratic power certainly *isn't* going to last forever. In turn, this means that you are going to need to initiate a process of large-scale ethnic German settlement and colonization in Latvia and Estonia (and, if you want, in other areas such as Lithuania as well) which *isn't* going to be either stopped or reversed after you will lose most of your powers (and/or after you will die, if the autocratic system in Germany will outlive you).
Indeed, any thoughts on how exactly you should *successfully* accomplish your goal of making both Latvia and Estonia have an ethnic German-majority population (and preferably a *large* ethnic German-majority population) by 2016 (but preferably as early as possible)?
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Since I am an American who is certainly *extremely* interested in Manifest Destiny (albeit an American who obviously *strongly* dislikes what happened to the Native Americans afterwards), I felt compelled to ask this question here:
Let's say that you are the Kaiser of Germany in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Also, let's say that you appoint strong Chancellors who are willing to push through whatever policies you prefer. In addition to this, let's say that, under your reign, Germany is more careful with naval expansion and less provocative in its foreign policy. Also, let's say that you tell your generals to focus on a long war rather than on a short war and to use Moltke the Elder's Plan for defense in the West and a limited offensive in the East rather than using the Schlieffen Plan.
Anyway, let's say that World War I still breaks out sometime in the mid-1910s in this TL due to some crisis getting out of control. However, in this TL, Germany *doesn't* invade Belgium in World War I and thus both Britain and the U.S. remain neutral in this TL's World War I (which in turn means that there is *no* British blockade of Germany during World War I in this TL). Thus, in this TL's World War I, French troops get mauled by Germany (which is purely on the defensive in the West at the start of World War I in this TL) as they try to invade Germany while the same thing happens to Russian troops in the East (as in, Germany allows Russian troops to penetrate a little into German territory before mauling them). Afterwards, Germany remains exclusively on the defensive in the West while slowly and gradually beginning to advance deeper and deeper into Russian territory. (Also, for the record, during this TL's World War I, you keep ambitious German generals such as Hindenburg and Ludendorff at arm's length in order to prevent them from seizing too much power.) After three or four years of warfare, Russia cracks, descends into revolution, and capitulates to Germany. Afterwards, Germany is able to launch an *extremely* massive offensive in the West and to quickly defeat and overwhelm France, thus making France capitulate to Germany as well. (Indeed, the lack of British and American manpower to help the Franco-Russians in this TL makes an eventual Franco-Russian defeat in this TL's World War I virtually inevitable, in my honest opinion.)
In the post-World War I peace treaty in this TL, Germany acquires resource-rich Briey and Longwy as well as the rest of Lorraine and some French colonies from France. Meanwhile, Germany acquires Poland, *all* of the Baltic states, and *maybe* Ukraine, the Caucasus, and/or (probably *much* less likely) Central Asia from Russia in this peace treaty. In addition to this, both France and Russia are forced to have permanent limitations on the size of their militaries as well as to pay *extremely* large amounts of reparations to Germany for the next several decades.
Anyway, you are now the Kaiser of a victorious Germany in World War I. In addition to this, by this point in time, you have become fascinated by the U.S.'s 19th century settlement and territorial expansion in the form of Manifest Destiny. Thus, you want to implement a German version of Manifest Destiny in Latvia and Estonia (due to their relatively low population density and centuries-long history of German rule and German domination) and want to make both Latvia and Estonia have an ethnically-German majority population (and preferably a *large* majority) by 2016 (but preferably as early as possible). Also, since you are a decent Kaiser, you certainly *don't* want to resort to *any* Nazi-like tactics such as genocide, ethnic cleansing(s), and expulsion(s) in order to achieve this goal of yours.
Anyway, how exactly do you *successfully* accomplish this task? Also, for the record, just like in our TL in 1918, the ethnically German nobility of Latvia and Estonia (the Baltic Barons) have offered to help you out in regards to this by offering to donate one-third of their total lands and estates so that these lands can be used for ethnic German settlement.
In addition to this, though, I would like to point out that the German people might be (or become) hungry for change, democratization, and liberalization after the end of this TL's World War I. Thus, your and your descendants autocratic power certainly *isn't* going to last forever. In turn, this means that you are going to need to initiate a process of large-scale ethnic German settlement and colonization in Latvia and Estonia (and, if you want, in other areas such as Lithuania as well) which *isn't* going to be either stopped or reversed after you will lose most of your powers (and/or after you will die, if the autocratic system in Germany will outlive you).
Indeed, any thoughts on how exactly you should *successfully* accomplish your goal of making both Latvia and Estonia have an ethnic German-majority population (and preferably a *large* ethnic German-majority population) by 2016 (but preferably as early as possible)?
