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Churchill definitely didn't agree with you. This is pretty much exactly where things stood in November 1941. By all appearances the USSR would be overrun and seized by the Reich, just as Brest-Litovsk resulted in the Germans grabbing much of this in the Great War before. There was no guarantee...

In the context of your thread title perhaps biasing my reading, I took and provisionally still take your meaning to be, "what is the impact of modern archeology or other historical investigations "discovering" these contacts as facts for the modern historic record?" That is the discovery is by...

This is one minor nitpick of one throwaway claim. I've seen a lot of Nazi propaganda imagery. It is certainly true that OTL, I can't cite an instance of boasting of mass extermination in the package. I do think I can illustrate how, from the mentality of someone like Hitler or other top...

I'm not voting at all until the zero option is put in. With a zero option in place and perhaps also a 10 percent option, I might vote the latter, having already qualified it as "not peace but a ceasefire of perhaps 2-4 years duration, a pause for both sides to reload" in effect. Which is...

Um, not really. In retrospect, after Pearl Harbor, it made sense for the Allies to regard all their foes in one "Axis" basket and mutually agree to reach no separate peaces short of unconditional surrender (or agree to a mutually agreed upon conditional one for a second tier player like Italy)...

Kiev reaching so far north by main force is pretty cartoonish I fear. OTL they couldn't even control Novgorod, nor do I think they really wanted to; their area of concentration would be their immediate surrounds--partitioning everything between Kiev and Constantinople between the respective...

The thing is, Britain is mobilized for war, and generally getting stronger. Pearl Harbor puts the Commonwealth on the ropes but automatically also brings the USA in as a combatant if only in the Pacific--the likelihood that Britain gets some active aid to hang on in the Atlantic theater too is...

I too have to ask, why no zero percent option? My guess is that you want to focus all discussion on how the semi-triumphant Reich's relations settle with the British and US powers, and Japan and China and the Russian rump east of the Urals and the rest of the world. But I agree with...

Comparing subjective notes, I didn't actually feel great confidence Clinton would win either. We hesitated to follow the post-polling news (my then partner, since deceased, despised news reporting in just about any format) and we decided to poke our heads up late (we were on Pacific Coast time...

The latter was definitely not clear in the 1850s-'60s. Get someone more Radical Republican than Grant, or shift Grant leftward, driving the rapidly strengthening Gilded Age corporatist wing to the Democrats, and the radical elements of the Republican coalition could grab on to the populist...

So they didn't even pause. Good. The question was why Spain and Portugal should respect each other's claims. They had weighty reasons to do that.

It's the law! Obviously nations break treaty law fairly frequently, but consider how European explorers would go about "claiming" islands by "right of discovery" all the time, running up the flag, noting it in the log book--and then, while many an island initially "claimed" by some explorer...

The major point I lean on for believing Clinton would win (not a sure thing at all, but it would the Democrats' election to lose) is the 12 year thing. American duopoly politics has a deep tendency toward taking turns. No partisan on either side wants the other side to get their turn, but the...

The latter point, that it is strategically useful to use the runes because it will tend to reach potential and possibly politically vital converts to the Orthodox side in the Latin-dominated rival states, seems pretty weighty to me actually, and worth chewing on. I am not the author; certainly I...

Well, Sweden is going Orthodox here. The Gothic alphabet was around way back in the days of the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, when the Goths converted to Arian Christianity. Cyrillic on the other hand was a clean break, basically an adaption of Greek to accommodate Slavic...

I think you have it backwards, but I guess it depends on what "Nordic" means. I always took that term to be ethno-linguistic, meaning North Germanic languages, which would exclude Finland and Estonia, whereas the narrowest sense of "Scandinavia" would just be the peninsula Norway and Sweden are...

I like this but I disagree on important details. Tried, yes. I have doubts Spain would tango though. With the Civil War never started, presumably most actors on both sides, including most everyone who died in the war, are still around as citizens of a Spain considerably more...

Isn't that a bit of an Orwellian usage of the word "popular?" Now to be honest, I myself have lived next door to a classic company town--Scotia, in Humboldt County, California, owned by Pacific Lumber. I was resident in Rio Dell, right across the Eel River. My understanding of the situation...

Indeed, supposing the Axis powers would have been stronger by saving money spent on the SCW is pretty backwards thinking; it seems pretty obvious to me that the experience they got could only have been helpful in their early war successes--without which their later war ones, but then of course...

As I understand it, the Belgian government behaved correctly according to its foundational treaty, and if they do that here too, they will indeed call for help from both London and Berlin, and possibly the Netherlands too. I don't recall if the Dutch were signatory guarantors of Belgian...