Snake Featherston
Banned
1) The Axis can seriously win WWII. The obvious. There are ways for the Allies to lose WWII, there are virtually none for the Axis to win it.
2) German hegemony following a Central Powers victory produces utopia in Europe and in the world. ROFLMAO, no. It would produce a different kind of dystopia at best. The German Empire would be an Imperial Japan run by the generals and admirals in the heart of Europe and that's no recipe for stability in any sense of the term.
3) The rise of the United States to superpower status is inevitable. To use one counterexample the USA went into WWI late and was equipped by the Allies while Pershing was amazingly deaf to military reality unfolding in front of him. The USA in any different scenario that sees shorter and less gruesome world wars is going to be overshadowed by Europe.
4) The Soviets cannot win the Cold War. Soviet victory if victory be defined by a neo-isolationist spasm in the USA is not implausible. A US collapse is, the USA retreating into America Firster thinking is not.
5) Nazis and WWII as OTL must happen. Short version: NO. Long version: the rise of Hitler and the Nazis and the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact were all contingent events, nothing makes them no less certain unforeknown.
Your cliches? This thread inspired by https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=206127
2) German hegemony following a Central Powers victory produces utopia in Europe and in the world. ROFLMAO, no. It would produce a different kind of dystopia at best. The German Empire would be an Imperial Japan run by the generals and admirals in the heart of Europe and that's no recipe for stability in any sense of the term.
3) The rise of the United States to superpower status is inevitable. To use one counterexample the USA went into WWI late and was equipped by the Allies while Pershing was amazingly deaf to military reality unfolding in front of him. The USA in any different scenario that sees shorter and less gruesome world wars is going to be overshadowed by Europe.
4) The Soviets cannot win the Cold War. Soviet victory if victory be defined by a neo-isolationist spasm in the USA is not implausible. A US collapse is, the USA retreating into America Firster thinking is not.
5) Nazis and WWII as OTL must happen. Short version: NO. Long version: the rise of Hitler and the Nazis and the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact were all contingent events, nothing makes them no less certain unforeknown.
Your cliches? This thread inspired by https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=206127