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How does he exactly survive? There's a really, really sad story called "Winterberry" told from the POV of a child named John who has an Uncle Ted who it turns out is actually a severely brain-damaged JFK who they've got hidden away in the compound, with "Uncle Ted" actually being Ted Kennedy who...

Good thoughts on alt-Denmark Straits. Also, IIRC when the Hood was sunk the British went after Bismarck hard-core. If the Hood is sunk or crippled, will the British go similarly vindictive against Vichy France?

If the Soviets push toward India, I imagine a whole lot of armaments and goodies will be flowing to the Afghan tribes to snarl up their efforts. It hasn't been long since the Soviets tried to restore an overthrown reformist Afghan king to power with, among other things, disguised Cossacks...

Nobody thinks the Battle of Denmark Strait itself might be butterflied?

I'm reading about Mers-e-Kebir in ENGLAND'S LAST WAR AGAINST FRANCE and apparently a small French ship managed to get two torpedoes off against the HMS HOOD, which barely avoided them. What if they'd struck true? I don't know about the HOOD's protections against torpedoes, so what if: 1...

That depends on how good they are at hitting moving ships from the air whilst getting shot at. The Taranto Raid was at ships that weren't moving.

Vast resources doesn't necessarily mean a successful atomic program. The Nazis crippled their own program with ideological foolishness.

Can you prove that, or at least show where it is plausible?

He could, but that would be rather difficult for him. After all, he'd spent the last decades proclaiming the inferiority/danger of the Slavs. Him doing a 180 would undermine his position considerably. Perhaps if Hitler suffered an accident (or "accident") and Goering took power? Goering was...

Also, what about British intelligence? Admiral Canaris, the head of Germany's military intelligence agency, was a British agent from 1937 on IIRC. Perhaps they'd be working on ways to short-circuit the enlarged Axis, like assassinating Stalin or tricking him into launching another purge, one...

To play the devil's advocate, they could be useful in countering other fighters, even just as flying cannon fodder. If anything, Hitler might privately scheme to expend as many Soviets as possible for the coming backstab. However, I'm imagining a Free Russian Air Force consisting of embittered...

And the RAF and RN are just standing still during all of this? For starters, I imagine a rapprochement with Japan will be in the works pretty soon. This could lead to a two-front war against the Axis.

See my post about training, doctrine, etc. Even if the enlarged Axis can gin up a massive number of airframes, that isn't necessarily enough to guarantee them a victory against the RAF or prevent the RN from stopping a Channel crossing.

They'd still need to get across the Channel. Those masses of aircraft could come in handy, but how good were they against ships, especially in 1940-41? The British managed the Taranto Raid, but that was the British, who had extensive naval experience. The Germans, Soviets, and Italians are...

The Soviets could deploy masses of tanks, but so long as the RN and RAF are intact those masses of tanks aren't getting to Britain itself. The Middle East and India, however, are a rather different story. :eek: That said, Hitler was wedded to his ideas about "living space" in the East. Him...

I think Stalin launching a war of revenge against Japan for 1905 is more doable, considering they're isolated diplomatically and a weaker opponent than any European coalition that would come to the defense of Poland (don't know about the Baltics). Plus the USSR was already making inroads into...

If Hitler needs a victory, squishing the Belgian pocket to free up troops to fight the advancing Anglo-French seems like a good idea.

Replace that with "populated area" then. No need to be so literal. That said, there've been crashes of aircraft carrying nuclear weapons that didn't contaminate the area they've landed in. If an Orion fell from orbit, unless there was some weird chain reaction that caused all the nukes to...

Or perhaps the distances and energy requirements to cross said distances are so huge that most species don't even bother.

How widespread is belief in the Great Filter in the scientific community? Because if only 3% of scientists worry about uber-tech leading to human extinction, 6% of scientists taking the position might be a great increase over the previous number but not have significant effects.