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Derek Pullem
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AHC/What If: End the Atlantic Slave Trade earlier
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I think you highlight the reason why Africa wasn't identified as a major sugar producing area - having the production outside of the...
Today at 10:03 AM
Derek Pullem
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Ming conquer Indian Ocean
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First answer is that they wouldn't gain control of the Indian Ocean trade as they would probably be deposed by the "Mongols" / Jurchen...
Monday at 8:45 AM
Derek Pullem
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WI: An Anti-Appeasement Popular Front in Interwar Britain
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There is a difference between appeasement and remilitarisation. Churchill was strong on remilitarisation, less so on appeasement until...
Friday at 7:12 AM
Derek Pullem
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What if the evacuation of Dunkirk had failed?
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Would Germany ever return them? They never returned the almost 2 million French POW to Vichy France. I think that Germany would hold...
Friday at 3:24 AM
Derek Pullem
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What if the evacuation of Dunkirk had failed?
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Sorry that was a general not specific reply! I didn't mean that as a direct response to your post but a general retort to those who...
Thursday at 8:43 AM
Derek Pullem
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What if the evacuation of Dunkirk had failed?
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Yes a collapse of British will to resist is possible and to some degree was what was behind Halifax's questioning of Churchill on...
Thursday at 8:06 AM
Derek Pullem
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Operation Unthinkable in Mid-April 1945 - Germany/US/UK coming together
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From the JCS history I linked earlier. The JIC prepared a report on Soviets intentions in January 1945. Which in hindsight was pretty...
Thursday at 4:56 AM
Derek Pullem
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What if the evacuation of Dunkirk had failed?
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Operation Paul per se is historical fact. It was an extension of the plan to mine Norwegian waters (Operation Wilfred) by mining the...
Thursday at 4:44 AM
Derek Pullem
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Operation Unthinkable in Mid-April 1945 - Germany/US/UK coming together
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Not considered in US war planning prior to Korean War. You can check out the plans here...
Apr 9, 2024
Derek Pullem
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Avoid the 2008 crisis
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Why does that stop someone doing what they did IOTL and make even more money (Greed is good......)?
Apr 9, 2024
Derek Pullem
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What if Germany Won the Battle of Stalingrad?
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Yep. Barbarossa relies on the Soviets folding rather than the Germans winning. To be fair, everyone Hitler had challenged had folded...
Apr 9, 2024
Derek Pullem
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Operation Unthinkable in Mid-April 1945 - Germany/US/UK coming together
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Why all the Churchill hate recently? Given that USSR had originally sided with the Nazis to invade Poland and was now sitting on half...
Apr 9, 2024
Derek Pullem
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What if the evacuation of Dunkirk had failed?
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Not exactly more recent - if you had read the original article I liked to the author was responding to a piece by David Carlton (the...
Apr 8, 2024
Derek Pullem
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Salvage post Soviet Russian naval & airforces
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Boomers were credible as second strike weapon. But learn from UK - you only need 4 (or maybe 5 if you have Soviet reliability). IRBMs...
Apr 8, 2024
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