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I missed the part where bureaucrats pushed Uncle Joe out of power. How much appeasing did he do after 1932?

Just like Stalin was. Got it.

From what the guy at the top wants to do. As long s that person was politically secure, could direct the USSR into any number of paths different from Uncle Joe and Nikita

Twin Cities has decent light rail

That how the Constitution would get amended

well, even having real competition would help as with 'You pretend yo pay us, and we pretend to work'

1960? have them buy VW in 1946, and make a lot of Pounds off the Beetle, with Tooling moved to Itchen.

The big draw to a new Interstate System, was it was limited access freeway, and not have frequent stops, like the State Highway system. and once on the Interstate, higher, yet safer travel, wide curves and smooth grades on that divided roads and high speed interchanges

FDR pushed for Interstates in 1944.

Losses of your own airforces are a good way to check, and the Hawk 75 had the lowest loss rate of the French Fighters. Didn't hurt that typically the Hawk equipped unites were all in all, had better pilots with more experience P-40C was probably the best mix of speed and maneuverability, but...

yes. And what a boondoggle that was too, but it got Bombs on Japan, something FDR wanted ASAP. a ground army couldn't do that. The war wouldn't be won by fighting the IJA in China

Politically impossible, and besides, that what the Common Army, the Imperial and Royal kuk Force was about

XX Bomber Command was Major. Supplying a ground army across the Hump was not possible, but air wings were

technically, the Nike-Hercules was a mobile missile system, but in practice, it was mobile to its emplacement site, where they would stay til decomissioned

Rolling Thunder used mostly B-52D, that had an obsolete ECM package compared to what did the missions for Linebacker II, that had more 'G' versions that had lower loss rates

15kt at 50,000 feet wouldn't have much, if any, effect on the ground. If that nuke takes out a B-52 carrying two mk-53 9MT City Killers, it more than pays for those effects. SOP for conventional warhead versions was to bang off 3 or 4 at a target During Linebacker II, the SA-2 with conventional...

With a Serbian knockout, and holding against the Russians, the Italians may sit out in 1915

At the Start of the War, confused mobilization screwed up the Serbian advance, and Austrian attacks against the Russians went well until September, that led to disaster. Standing on Defence might have been a better plan while trying for a Serbian knockout