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  1. Prevent NATO Expansion, and Keep Eastern Europe Tied to Russia

    And, of course, East Germany “joined NATO” by means of ceasing to exist and becoming part of a United Germany that inherited a NATO spot from West Germany.

  2. Prevent NATO Expansion, and Keep Eastern Europe Tied to Russia

    Which is why the Warsaw Pact states didn’t take the first opportunity to bolt from Soviet Domination, even before the Soviet Union collapsed, and why the Soviets didn’t have to militarily intervene multiple times to keep their satellite states in line and crush popular uprisings. Oh, no, wait...

  3. WI the Rolling Stones broke up in the 1980s?

    Honestly, probably not much. To be blunt, by the early 80s the Stones were past their prime as a band. As popular as they were, their time as influencers was over. Start Me Up is the only one of their hits from this era to remain in the popular consciousness and even it doesn't have a whole lot...

  4. Californie- French California

    Alas, poor Mexico. So far from God, so close to the United States.

  5. How did the Union Army Compare to its European Counterparts in 1865?

    I'm going to echo what others have said about seapower: the Union navy isn't a match for the larger naval powers on the high seas, but I'd like to add the caveat that that was because it wasn't built to. The Union Navy was a coastal force designed to conduct close blockade and assault fortified...

  6. WI: No WWII, no massive increase in military spending, what happens to the USA?

    The Japanese would prefer to escalate straight to war in that situation, and the US happy to oblige them. Most likely you would see the kind of slow boil that led to war IOTL.

  7. Entente holds in Summer 1940: Impacts on US rearmament, foreign policy, Anglo-French exchanges

    Probably, though I’m not certain.

  8. Entente holds in Summer 1940: Impacts on US rearmament, foreign policy, Anglo-French exchanges

    The big deficit by 1941 is artillery ammunition. Unfortunately, I’ve never been able to find again where I read this, but the Germans were cruising for a collapse in artillery ammo production that year due to a lack of vital material inputs, a fate they only avoided IOTL by looting France.

  9. WI: No WWII, no massive increase in military spending, what happens to the USA?

    I couldn’t say with any certainty. These things are hard to predict. Oh, and that Asian Tiger thing definitely wouldn’t happen, not least because three of the four are run by the Japanese as colonies.

  10. WI: No WWII, no massive increase in military spending, what happens to the USA?

    I doubt it. Japanese industry was not up to the task; even in their domestic market they were getting outcompeted by Europe, let alone the US, in sectors such as shipbuilding, where despite massive government investment Japanese shipping lines still preferred to import. Even postwar, with all...

  11. Entente holds in Summer 1940: Impacts on US rearmament, foreign policy, Anglo-French exchanges

    This is completely incorrect. Congress in June 1940 passed a modest 11% increase in the US Navy. A few days later the Fall of France happened. A few days after CNO Harold Stark marched into Congress and requested the ships of the Two-Ocean Navy Act. The next day, the House of Representatives...

  12. Alternate warships of nations

    It could probably be done, yes, though that specific armament fit is probably not possible.

  13. Sea Lion ….. No Really

    Because that worked so well for France in the 19th century… Bluntly, the only country that can contribute anything to a Sealion strategy, of the countries listed, is Italy. The majority of the French fleet is trapped overseas where it can be bottled up, French industry is little help given the...

  14. Could Airships have helped Britain in WW2 to deal with U-Boats?

    The N-class use the R-1300, which is just a single-row R-2600. Well within the reach of period designers. Nah, this is just a case of there being other solutions at the time and no time to put out a new design. Ideally, in this scenario the Brits would have a few ready to go prewar and can...

  15. Could Airships have helped Britain in WW2 to deal with U-Boats?

    https://lynceans.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Goodyear_N-class-blimps-converted-compressed.pdf In this source you can see an N-class blimp making a round trip across the Atlantic. This is a postwar design but I don’t think there’s any technical reason a similar design couldn’t be built during...

  16. Could Airships have helped Britain in WW2 to deal with U-Boats?

    K-class blimps, I.e. non-rigid airships, were the backbone of USN airship efforts. They had a range of 2205 miles and an endurance of 38 hours, insufficient for crossing the Atlantic but perfect for coastal operations. A small handful of M-class blimps were produced with a range of 3000 miles...

  17. Could Airships have helped Britain in WW2 to deal with U-Boats?

    US Navy air ships were astonishingly effective at deterring U-boats. Only one ship was lost while under airship escort in the whole war. They would’ve been an excellent asset and it’s a damn shame the R101 crash effectively killed off British airship development.

  18. Sea Lion ….. No Really

    Yes, that about sums up the strategic bind Germany had maneuvered themselves into.

  19. Sea Lion ….. No Really

    Because Sealion doesn’t get any less impossible for the Germans to pull off in 1941 or 1942, and Barbarossa had one thing going for it: it plays to Germany’s strengths. Think it impossible all you want, but a massive ground invasion at least looks a lot more likely to succeed than a seaborne...

  20. What if Imperial Germany was actually militaristic?

    Uh-huh. The voter franchise being wider-reaching under the Kaiser than anywhere else on earth is both incorrect and ignorant of context. For one, New Zealand had them beat: New Zealand had, at the time, universal suffrage for men and women, where Germany still practiced male-only suffrage. For...
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