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Roosevelt's behaviour is quite consistent. He did his best to trigger a war to the last minute he could. But he is no tyrant. So yes, he could try to fight the Congress (and public opinion) over it even now but it would fail and harm his political standing. Also, after the war (if he lives)...

Honestly, I don't believe the British would have abandoned Iraq, Transjordania or Egypt to the Axis so easily. They had suffered defeats there, but were NOT beaten, and still controlled most of the territory (the Axis was still far from Suez and hadn't taken Cairo, and wasn't in control of...

What a mess...

Hitler and the NSDAP could pressure the German government to stop paying reparations to France and Belgium. Because "as occupiers, they committed war crimes in their occupation zones, which is a break of the peace treaty. Therefore, Germany is free from her own obligations". It's an obvious...

Agreed. Germany managing to avoid enmity with the USA, avoiding major blunders in the Eastern Front and doing better there, I can believe. This works. However, the Axis pushing past El Alamein is logistically implausible. Moreover, Britain had only Egypt as a front, and can draw on both the...

Honestly I suspect that Franco is just bluffing... While assuming that Britain will bow out of the war under US pressure.

But isn't Cyprus under British control ? And if not, when and more importantly how did the Axis take it ?

Small mistake : you wrote that the German aircraft intervened in Iraq from Cyprus. Didn't you mean Syria and Lebanon ?

Churchill is right, in a way. Letting the Nazis control Central and Eastern Europe all the way to the Urals (and possibly, have Siberia as a vassal that gives resources to them) means the Germans can grow in numbers (they will have plenty room and resources to do so) until they match the USA in...

Honestly the Nazis might simply kill the Jews slowly through forced work (using them to build the infrastructure, industries and colonial cities of the Eastern provinces to a satisfactory level). Why waste millions of slaves ? BTW, even women, old men and children can be worked up to death (and...

India likely becomes independent. Neither Britain nor the USA, nor India itself (more importantly) would accept German control of India, and Germans have no way to enforce it (ever), and even if they could they (again) don't have enough men to control the subcontinent. So it likely becomes a...

More likely, Siberia becomes a semi-autonomous vassal with some Heer, LW and KM bases (allowing some power projection in Asia and Pacific if Germans want), forced to pay a tribute and fully (or nearly fully) demilitarised (no tanks, missiles, navy, air force...). Germans don't have enough men to...

Would Germans even want an occupation zone in Japan ? With the occupation of Poland and European Soviet Union (plus enough forces at home keeping France in line and deterring Britain from any attack), they'd be stretched thin in manpower. Maybe a one-city occupation zone (Hong Kong-style) that...

Jews are screwed, but TTL Hitler may wait until the end of the war to kill/deport them. No need to use resources for the Shoah in the middle of a total war.

Would Canada agree with German bases ? It's more likely Canadians would tell the new British government to basically fuck off. And even if Canada does agree, the USA would likely immediately invade (and call it "an intervention to preserve Canadian independence" or something). Same thing for...

Roosevelt might not accept right away German assistance, not until the British-German war is resolved. He has a legitimate reason ("We don't want to cooperate directly with Germany in war, while Germany is at war with our other ally"). But if/when Britain accepts peace, then the USA will likely...

It doesn't matter if Roosevelt does supply the German ships/subs in Far East or not, accepts German assistance or not. The USA won't threaten Germany anymore, and THAT's the key point.

Also if Britain maintains the war with Germany despite the proposal of "peace with French independence" it will really sound like the British don't care about France. (That + Free France a British puppet taking colonies, and the 1940 attacks on Dakar and Mers el Kebir) So yes, Vichy France...

Offering to give back independence to Western Europe (in addition to war with Japan and deployment of KM) is the true masterstroke. Without that, FDR might have argued the German DOW was "just a cynical gesture" and Germany was still an enemy of the democratic West. Now, war with Germany (or...

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