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Not gonna lie, it would be freaking hilarious to see a Spanish conquest of China, something like a couple hundred men could just waltz into Beijing... ... it'll be like taking candy from a baby, what could possibly go wrong?

Probably better off than OTL USSR navy, but that's only because they got their ass handed to them in the Great War fast enough for the country to not slide into civil war and chaos, which meant that a lot of the fleet and, more importantly, naval infrastructure and manufacturing base, was...

How about take out the middle two turrets and use that space for a hanger and catapult? Whatever remaining weight left over could be invested in a pagoda mast... ... wait a minute, what are the chances of a hybrid carrier conversion? take out the middle and rear turrets (so 5 out of the 7) and...

Are you sure? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea_Lion#Tauchpanzer :p

The magic of friendship?

The pocket battleships were already cheating heavily in terms of weight (as in, they were 11,700t standard, already 1,700t overweight, and at full load they were around 15,900-16,200t), to pull off what you suggested they would have to pack on even more tonnes. Although I could sort of see a...

Or more people being more used to bodies of all shapes and sizes... okay, so a long shot, but somebody has to at least pretend to be optimistic here.

That's not how fitting turrets work, especially those 2 superimposed ones. Also the side view doesn't really account for the beam of the ship. Davy Jones locker

Yeah nah you're not gonna fit 21 18in guns on a ~30k tonne displacement, not working ones anyway. Although it's only a single ship, and given the long lead in construction times of even a more normal battleship the effects of a single super ship would be rather limited all things considered...

Not to mention he loves his show trials...

Well, he was known as the silver tongued devil for a reason...

He'll probably be hung though, like the other ones at the trial OTL. In fact, Goring specifically asked to be executed by firing squad as befitting of a soldier, which was denied, and then he took that cyanide capsule to escape the shame of being hung like a common criminal.

Well, that's why I said a ceasefire, and not a treaty, as the former is facing the realities on the ground but not wanting to admit anything while the latter being more concrete.

Well, the point might be that a ceasefire might be brokered when the soviets turned the tide, but couldn't necessarily exploit it enough to go on long distance offensives of their own. So by that point for Hitler he's no longer winning but still has the chance of salvaging something from his...

Again, I think there's a high chance of a ceasefire of sorts on the eastern front as it becomes all to clear to Stalin that the western imperialist want him and the Nazis to bleed each other out, of course that ceasefire will happen more on the Soviet's terms as they at least give the impression...

Stalin might just cut a deal (read: ceasefire) with Hitler, especially if the western powers still took a long time to launch a "real " second front (otl stalin didn't exactly consider the Italian campaign to be a second front). Might be even a small chance that nazi germany survives in a...

The line between loser and martyr is sometimes more blurry than we would like to admit, and sometimes losing is as convenient as winning. All that's needed is a narrative of martyrdom and some nebulous long term thingy... Also on a less serious note, Jesus getting nailed to a cross didn't...

Ouch. Guess they pushed too far and pissed off too many of the rich and powerful...

Well the question is why would the dominant powers bother in the first place? They're unstable and sliding into despotism and butthurt revanchism. Throwing them a bone just further stroke that unwarranted ego, not to mention it'll need a fair bit of political capital to implement that to begin...

Russia got her arse spanked twice in as many decades, I'm not sure if she's in a position to demand much, much less getting it.