See, I recall that Germany had actually tried to help Nationalist China before WWII, and I'm not sure exactly what happens if Germany continues to try to make that limited support instead of picking Japan.
The calculations are different, then. If China looks Pro-Axis, why would there be an...
[Let's throw in a few more shots, here]
June 16th, 1964: Antonin Scalia decides that History, and not law, is his real passion, and heads to the University of Virginia to study, and ultimately defend a dissertation on the Original Intentions of the Founding Fathers and the US Constitution...
[Okay, going to throw in some positive curveballs here...]
August 2nd, 1964: Gulf of Tonkin, off the coast of Vietnam. Interesting radar images are considered as a possible attack, leading to direct talks between defense secretary Robert MacNamara and the Captain of the ship involved, the USS...
I think most of it comes down to China;
Japanese Policy in China was intrinsically self defeating. Gain access to markets and gain influence by installing pro-Japanese leaders, sure. Killing Chinese People in wanton savagery and refusing to negotiate with Chiang?
What are the Chinese people...
In a world where liberalism has ended in a said farce, presuming that the Union simply comes apart and the Confederates simply have decided that Slavery = Good is a national credo, I think the more likely course of action is that the modern views of humanity--things like the UN Declaration of...
It's a bit of a loaded question, as the fine points of how it happens could potentially vary a lot.
By the German invasion of Poland, Italy has already made moves; Ethiopia has been conquered, Albania has been placed in personal union with Italy's royal family and is a protectorate, and Italian...
Invading the United States is lunatic and I think the USA makes it pretty obvious which of these options is more impossible.
The "UK" isn't just the island of Britain and Ireland, it's the whole package deal with Canada, Australia, and the others in tow, and so ANZAC shows up in North Africa in...
Rethinking 9-11 a bit here.
If only one tower is hit, the damage caused by the second tower flinging shrapnel wouldn't happen. Everyone in one of the towers gets out, perhaps the other tower falls minutes later than OTL, and there are a few more survivors?
OTOH, events on United 93 did hinge...
I'm not sure how much of France's forces can be salvaged, or even if this sort of scenario leads to choices like fighting for Paris instead of declaring it an open city, etc. If this actually manages to jam the German Blitz against France into a slower slog, the French certainly can move a lot...
No, again, that was very much a high cost, low result action.
I was thinking of a reverse Operations_Grouse_and_Freshman
with the aim of doing something like killing FDR.
I have no illusions that anything other than possibly a high result, low cost raid could possibly work out for the Axis.
How plausible would it be to try something like quietly sneaking in terrorists?
It might be workable to make some kind of raid that terrifies Americans and forces much greater costs in security.
Going beyond a terrorist raid is lunatic for many reasons, and four fifths of them are logistics...
Looking at the Wiki article of Gettysburg, I see some opening for Jackson to seize the high ground, but George Meade doesn't need to attack the AoNV on strong defensive ground--simply cutting off their supply lines and route of return home would probably force some kind of decisive battle.
I...
I can't help but think of my original CSA dystopia idea.
The part where slavery exists to the modern day.
The discovery that all of humanity emerged in Africa, and this is proven via DNA.
The continued existence of the One Drop Rule, thereby justifying enslavement of anyone of African ancestry...
While I agree that the USA and Germany are going to wind up in a shooting war, I noticed there is a very telling omission here:
Germany and Italy are fighting the Soviet Union; Japan is staying out of that war.
Japan is fighting the United States; Germany and Italy are staying out of the war...
Presuming a victory against the Soviet Union and a stand-down to a cold peace with the West, Germany has a great advantage: They can exploit their vassals, puppets and whatever poor status the untermensch of the East are going to have.
Nazi Germany would eventually demilitarize and stand down...