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My question would be how on earth they manage to organise this? The KKE basically shouldn't exist as a meaningful institution at this point, and certainly wouldn't have eight thousand members in Athens. Nearly all the leadership and most of the membership will still be in prison, and the...

I think the answer in India would be more Princely States that are de facto ruled by a British Resident but are de jure sovereign (if later subordinate to the Empress of India), and so don't send MPs to Westminster. The great coastal cities and Delhi would probably be exceptions.

The problem is that Stalin can't credibly offer to cut the German lifeline. Why would the Entente believe him if he said he was going to, when he's obviously using the Germans as a proxy to wear them down? I think the Entente also recognise that the German army needs to be destroyed in the...

That narrative will be much weaker without the fall of France and Japan subsequently being able to push around the Vichy French.

The Allies simply can't buy any more weapons from the US than they already have. They have no more money, in fact, they've already spent already ordered more equipment than they can pay for. They also can't borrow any more money to spend in the US, and the US is very unlikely to relax that in...

The thing is, the way events happened iOTL was very contingent. The British were much more heavy handed in Iraq and Egypt than they were pre-war. This is demonstrated by the fact that they allowed the governments they overthrew to take power in the first place. This won't happen here, as Italy...

Just to note, there's almost certain not to be a Suez crisis. The whole development of the Middle East will have been totally changed without the Anglo-Iraqi War, the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran, and the British overthrow of the Egyptian government, all of which are incredibly unlikely to happen.

I'd actually expect quite a bit of it to be re-exported, or even simply to transit Germany to other countries, such as Italy and the Balkans, where some of it in turn will be sold on to the allies. It's pretty hard for the Germans to know if the Italians are re-exporting pit props to the...

To be precise, the Japanese only joins the Tripartite Pack because they thought that the allies we're losing badly. That's one of the critical steps towards the embargo.

Because the French didn't want the UK to join, because they saw them as too supine to the US (and wanted to protect their own agricultural sector in the '60s). Consider that the UK set up its own European free trade zone (EFTA), as a rival to the EEC. It was also a rhetorical device used by...

That's true, but why would they want to? Of course, but while the other countries influence will be small, I think it will be real. The thing is, it isn't really an either/or situation. With France and Britain in the driving seat, there isn't a conflict between retaining colonial empires and...

The criticality of the resources will also matter for the horse trading. If you read the contemporary papers of the foreign policy journals, you'll see that this was recognised (like the one I linked before), at least parts of the French and British establishments had been scared into thinking...

While currently this is true, it's the precedent and the institutions required to manage it that matter. Institutions and established practices have a lot of momentum, and become self-perpetuating pretty easily. This will have strong effects post war when all these countries start off by default...

Something to consider is how long the effective merger of the sterling and franc currency zone will continue post war, or even if it will ever end (it was due to end six months after the war does, but if the Soviet Union is looking threatening at the end, it may well not). The Bank of England...

I suspect that it Blair does avoid taking part then there will be an additional deployment to Afghanistan as pay back of some kind, but it would still be a big blow to relations. I think a fourth term is pretty likely though, and Brown being dropped. That may be a problem come the financial...

I think the big difference will be in terms of assimilation. The native Americans won't initially be seen as white, but they'll find it much easier to 'become white' and be considered that over time. On the other hand, that probably means the cultural genocide will be even more complete...

I just can't believe that drivers exist to get Congress to pass an act that would allow Roosevelt discretion to embargo Japan. It only passed in the most extreme circumstances iOTL which haven't been repeated here. It would need a crisis on the level of the Fall of France for Congress to...

Interestingly, the underlined isn't the case (and is inconsistent with your correct first sentence). Crime rose much more in the big inner cities than elsewhere, but lead concentrations were also much higher there. The lead hypothesis actually explains most of why crime was so much higher in...

I'm actually really surprised that the Germans have done this well, given they should lack both strategic and tactical surprise thanks to ULTRA and related code-breaking, which should be significantly more advanced than iOTL with less disruption and better signals interception. They've had...

If it's Clarkson, surely it would have to be a car crash?