Is there any reason the Allies couldn't just land in northern Spain and then push through southern France for free? Like, what were the cucked Spaniards going to do? Or what was Hitler going to do at the Allies' violation of Spanish neutrality? Send a strongly worded letter to the League of Nations?
>>18486303It would've been a logistical hassle to get past the Pyrenees just to push into France and the Germans weren't retarded enough to leave that border unguarded. It was easier to just take Italy and push north.
>>18486303>Like, what were the cucked Spaniards going to do?>Like, what were the cucked Iranians going to do?>Like, what were the cucked Afghans going to do?>Like, what were the cucked Vietnamese going to do?
>>184863031. They've already landed in North Africa, just in the other side of Gibraltar. Africa was in allied hands, few exceptions like Spain or Portugal didn't change the picture.2. There are those mountains called Pyrenees separating Spain and France. The moment landing happens there is the moment Germans send engineers, forced labourers and soldiers into them and start digging in. If the allies wanted to see first hand why did Luigi Cadorna fight 13 battles of Isonzo they would learn. After trying to storm the same mountain passes dozens of times, they would.3. While Spain was in no way able to join the war on their own due to shit economy, if faced with one they could mobilise numerous and experienced army. Yes their equipment would be outdated and their experience not exactly first class, but they weren't useless.
>>18486542>their experience not exactly first classBlau Division proves you wrong.
>>18486562Yes a relatively small volunteer unit. Their quality is certainly an indicator of mass mobilised Spaniard citizenry.
>>18486303there are fucking pyranees in the way you retarded mutt
>>18486303The objective was to end the war as soon as possible, not expand the war.The key to Germany, the so-called "soft underbelly" was believed to be Italy.This turned out to be true... until the Germans quickly occupied the country and turned the mountains into a fortress.Anyway, the immediate problems here would be:1. Spain sides with Germany = an additional enemy is created = ww2 delayed.2. Allies are framed as aggressors equal to the Axis3. Logistical nightmare - overseas supply lines are 30 times longer and land supply lines are 30 times longer.4. The strategy would inevitably violent French neutrality (the part that is an independent republic and not German-occupied). See point 1 and 2.5. Italy remains on the Axis since they're not knocked out. Axis gets more time and resources to resist and fight outside their own territory.6. Ardenne mountains may create a defensive line if the Germans successfully predict allied intentions.7. No immediate strategic benefit as opposed to simply landing in Normandie.
>>18486303Why didn't the Allies just invade the German coast directly?
Why didn't the Allies just airdrop their entire army directly into Berlin?
>>18486518OP is a esl faggot
