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  1. W/I No Lend Lease and Operation Unthinkable

    I could not comment on how it was used by the partisans of the 40s and 50s, but imo, that a policy and policy makers should be judged by the outcomes of their policies. I am open to hearing how much or how little weight our words would have had to the Nationalist governnment. And I am curious...

  2. W/I No Lend Lease and Operation Unthinkable

    I was watching a video that touched on the immediate post war situation in China the other day. And I was reminded of, what I think is one of America's great blunders, where we put pressue on the nationalists to make peace with the communists. And of course we saw how that worked out. Just...

  3. W/I No Lend Lease and Operation Unthinkable

    If it is "highly unlikely" that the soviets would get knocked out of the war without lend lease, then you can withhold or reduce lendlease and still have the Germans fighting the two front war, and have some consideration for hte post war situation AND even NOT have the pro-Soviet propaganda...

  4. WI: no partition of India

    I don't know much about the internal working of India of the time, but I do have ONE point to raise. Would/could an UNITED India exising in 1971, lead to the China UN Security Council seat being taken from Taiwan and given to what is NOW the largest nation in teh world, instead of RED CHINA...

  5. WI: Watergate is never discovered

    True. But still. With a win like that behind him, he is going to have some serious street cred going into his second term.

  6. WI: Watergate is never discovered

    First thing to consider, this is Nixon's ACTUAL re-election map. To give you an idea of the way America viewed him before the Watergate scandal.

  7. if the axis won how would they think about a allied victory

    Totalitarian regimes and people tend to not deal well with any type of questioning that could be considered doubting the inevitability of their victory. Any such writer or blogger, in such a tl, would be waking though a minefield with every post, just waiting for the least reasonable person to...

  8. Could a TV show with realistic astronaut stuff be successful in the 90s?

    i've heard good stuff about the expanse. so much good tv these days.

  9. Could a TV show with realistic astronaut stuff be successful in the 90s?

    hard sci fi ideas that could be used for tv drama. 1. kinetic energy weapons. 2. stealth nukes in orbit. 3. solar power satellites . 4. a bean stalk. 5. an orion. 6. terra-forming mars. 7. an oneil colony. 8. military conflict in space. 9. SDI 10 all the above. my opinion...

  10. What countries could have been divided during the Cold War?

    Agreed. Japan would fit too.

  11. WI: Could the Soviet Union not be a superpower?

    Well, the us and the ussr are very different entities, to be allied with. Note the lack of border clashes between the US and Canada over the last one hundred years for example, compared to the USSR and China. Still, if that is what you want for your timeline, it is certainly plausible. On...

  12. WI: Could the Soviet Union not be a superpower?

    My first response would be that that they would be in BETTER shape because of less Red Scare. But, if the Soviets seem like less like the "tide of history" is on their side, that could reduce the appeal of the ideology. Really, it could go either way, depending how people bounce to the new...

  13. WI: Could the Soviet Union not be a superpower?

    Sounds very reasonable to have a NOT superpower soviet Union, still involved in supporting the communists in China. A northern Manchuria/South China split seems also ok.

  14. WI: Could the Soviet Union not be a superpower?

    Depends on how messed up the Soviets are. Do you know that there was an American occupation of some of China after the defeat of the Japanese? That there was some fighting between the communists and the Americans...

  15. WI: Could the Soviet Union not be a superpower?

    If there is no Soviet Union bankrolling and arming marxist revolutionaries in the colonies, the Brits and the French, with their advanced military tech, such as gas and nukes, could end up fighting harder to hold on to their empires. Mmm, no soviet union, means no threat to the Imperial...

  16. WI: Could the Soviet Union not be a superpower?

    Without a strong soviet union to drive us military spending, you could have a situation where France gets nukes, and use that to try to appear as the US's equal. Perhaps, US mllitary spending collapses after the War, they spend a lot of money on developing nuclear capability, and then just...

  17. WI: Could the Soviet Union not be a superpower?

    1. It is easy to imagine ways that the Soviet Union could not be a superpower. 2. No soviet Threat, you could see the US return to isolationism. Or at least not have a formal NATO style alliance. 3. If the US level of commitment is far less, than a smaller nation such as France, that is more...

  18. Fate of a Colin Powell presidency

    THe exit polls showed that Powell could certainly have gotten the nomination and won the Presidency in 96; https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/07/opinion/07plissner.html "On Nov. 5, 1996, Voter News Service — the organization hired by the TV networks to do exit polling — asked people at the...

  19. AHC: Have a Dole/Kemp Ticket Win in 1996

    Dole's campaign was shit, which I say as someone who still has his Dole campaign t-shirt. Giving him something to motivate him to be far more aggressive, both in hammering Clinton on his scandals, AND to offer some good ideas FOR change could have light a fire. A more planned downsizing of...

  20. Why do Americans take their early WWII defeats by Japan with more equanimity than Commonwealthians ?

    My dad served in the Pacific, and in his entire life he ONCE mentioned his opinion that "Japs can't be trusted". IMO, the reason that Americans generally don't care about the historical early loses, is because Americans generally don't care about history.
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