I think the top one is quite plausible, regardless of what they claim.
As for an animal... maybe the Shark, given that they are a sea power and this is long before Jaws demonised sharks?
Why on Earth would we have done that, given the facf that they would be helpless to defend us? Sadly, many Irish people took the 'enemy of my enemy' attitude towards the Nazis...
Maybe at first, but I can't see why they would have left us as anything other than a satellite for long. If anything,m to prevent the country becoming a huge base for US espionage.
I would imagine we would have surrenderd lickety-split. ?wouldn't be much else we could have done.there could well have been some guerilla resistance from left-wing groups, but if the Germans returned NI to Dublin, then I'm sad to say, most Irish would probably have been indifferent to it.
Yeah, I think one way or another, you need to either get rid of or substantially reduce the Premiership of Brezhnev. You can do that at either end and make avoiding the lack of stagnation plausible, i.e. either Khruschev stays longer or Andropov gets in earlier.
But remember the butterflies...