Recent content by Shinsu

The biggest thing not yet mentioned is the shipment of Swedish Iron Ore. The whole reason for the Norwegian invasion in the first place: After the capture of Norway, Swedish Iron ore shipments to Germany tripled, and stayed at much higher levels during the rest of the war, even though Germany...

Can we have a thread that doesn't dissolve into this spit-firing yet again please?

Had Iraq tried against Iran yet again it would have been left with pretty much the same outcome as the Gulf-war. Iraqi troops would be massively demoralized, Iraq would go bankrupt, and I'd assume the international powers would do something.

Early's raid is the best bet for this. Had Lewis Wallace not managed to delay Early at Monocacy with a step-up of communication with Grant, then it's possible that Early could be facing the 9,600 men under Major General Christopher Auger in the DC defenses without any Union reinforcements for a...

The deep battle concept was thrown out of Soviet military strategy as it was associated with the denounced figures that created it and later adopted it again fully in late 41 and it had a series of problems until it was "ironed out" in mid-1943. Early application of the theory would...

Richard Overy (A British historian) essentially stated that it didn't really do harm in his book "Russia's War" pg 32 "By 1941, over 100,000 officers were entering the Soviet armed forces each year. The purges certainty removed some men of talent at the top of the military establishment, but...

The so called "Great Purge" during 1936-1938 in the Soviet Union is generally stated as one of the reasons for the losses that the Soviets faced during the early stages of Barbarossa. A significant amount of the Soviet officer class were killed, imprisoned, sent into labor camps etc. and...

Doing so would have been a major challenge to the Soviets to say the least. The border region was still under the influence of nomadic tribes to some degree, and they only pacified when the Soviets excreted their influence in Eastern China in the late 20's/early 30's. Afghanistan could likely...

If you prevent the two outbreaks of the plague in Iceland (first outbreak killing 50-60%, second 30-40%) then you could get potentially get a smaller amount of population on the island. The big issue was that the soil was losing its fertility (soil erosion?) and they would have only been able to...

No, no action in North America. The British and French did attack Petropavlovsk un-successfully though.

They were promised Northern Ireland to join the Allies which Valera refused as he more then likely guessed that creating a fully unified Ireland wasn't guaranteed post-war.

Here is a link to one of my sources: https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/albania I can dig up more of them if you'd want. On a new machine since I made the video so I sadly don't have all of my precious saved links.. Here's a link to my video if that was what you were asking for:

The situation in Albania was VERY complex at the time and had a whole host of different factions vying for power within the nation. I recently did a video about Albania during WW1. Below is part of my script. Albanian independence movements had been active for centuries, but their support grew...

It didn't have enough support in the senate when the motion was suggested IOTL. The reality of trying to occupy the whole of Mexico are largely unrealistic for the US to accomplish at the time. Dallas doesn't strike me as that much of a fool, the northern Mexican states may very well be handed...

Thanks for that! I had originally intended to have this be just a quick scenario video but might turn it into a full-fledged timeline if I can get enough good info. I wasn't aware of the two separate governments at the time. Just missed that paragraph when reading about them I guess. I wasn't...