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Originally Posted by Dondilion
Anti German hegemony. This attitude was derived from his WW1 experience.
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He was certainly against Nazi hegemony, especially with regard to Great Britain.
His being feverently against Hitler had nothing to do with Gallipoli. He was against fascism and communism because they were a clear and present threat to his beloved Western capitalist liberal democracy. In fact, the Gallipoli strategy was sound until the Admiralty's old English admirals got cold feet and didn't allow the navy to make another assault on the Dardanelles. If they had gone ahead with the planned assault the Black Sea would have become another British lake and Constantinople would have fallen. This in turn would have let the British provide significant logistic support to the Russians, significantly changing the strategic and tactical situation on the Eastern Front. In other words, Imperial Germany would be up Shit Creek without a paddle.