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The plan was to deploy somewhere around 100k British and 30k French troops into Finland to help us to win the war, but of course there were other pragmatic reasons for a move like this. The Franco-British force would have landed to Narvik and moved on rail through Norway to Sweden, through Kiiruna along the way. France and Brits asked both Norway and Sweden to accept the movement of the troops, for it not to be an invasion, and if they had accepted it would have pushed both countries into Allied side sooner than later, at least that was the thinking. Norway said no, Sweden also said no as Germany had told them that a such move would require Germany to see Sweden as their enemy and immediately invade them. Now we are at early march and the peace deal between Finland and Soviets was done which was the end of these plans.I remember hearing somewhere that the Allied leadership in the winter of '39 was so obsessively averse to offensive operations on the Westfront that in order to profitably employ their idle divisions, they even contemplated deploying an expeditionary force to intervene in the Finnish Winter War in a retarded attempt at opening a second front against the German-Soviet bloc.
But hypothetically let's say that the transit rights are given, what will happen next? Suddenly Narvik becomes an important Allied supply port and you have thousands of men and ships just handling logistics there. Narvik is also an important export port for Swedish metals from Kiiruna which would also see Allied troops handling logistics. Suddenly one major source of metals that Germany desperately needed would be under watchful eyes of the French and the Brits. And if that happens Germany would find a dagger pointed straight down at them from the North, especially if Germany actually invades Southern Sweden like they threatened to do.
So sure helping Finland would have been nice, those troops could have stabilized the front as our army was quite exhausted. But the bigger prize would have been the ability to deny Swedish metals to Germany.



