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The fact that SARS and MERS have such a high fatality rate makes it impossible for them to become pandemic. What you need for that is, well, COVID: relatively long disease, mild enough for too many people so they can go around spreading it, mild enough for some people so they can go around...

Would Stalin reject the offer, depending on what's offered? IIRC there were a series of cease fire conversations between Germany and the USSR between 1941 and 1943 (or was it 1944?)

Uh, why would Argentina annex Patagonia? It's already part of the country. And it's not really suited to crop production, as it's mostly a cold semidesert. Agricultural production there is extensive ranching (mostly sheep IIRC) and fruits in the valleys in the Andes

But, what's the time frame? Other than the Incas (by the late game) and some tribes by the Andes, most of modern Argentina was inhabited by nomadic hunter gatherers still living in the stone age. And frankly, most of the history of the region by the time of the European middle ages is lost

The French army in their western borders, which may or may not attack Germany, because the UK may or may not intervene in Germany' side.

While I doubt the American military would downsize that much, wasn't the Clinton administration on the way to pay off government debt? And wasn't that changed because of the War on Terror (not that Bush or any following administration couldn't issue debt for other stuff, though)...

But *if* more planes mean Leningrad falls, shipping supplies towards Leningrad (whenever the port becomes operational again) should improve German logistics after they conquer it

Then he can't use the Kriegsmarine to sink convoys in the Atlantic

Sure, but the RAF bombers were relatively ineffective at harming the German war effort, specially so in 1940-1941, and their existing fighters were short ranged. They may achieve better results in the Mediterranean, but that would be it

The Argentine submarine ARA San Luis fired on HMS Alacrity near the northern entrance of the San Carlos strait, but the torpedoes weren't working. Trying to get inside the strait, that would be another matter though. Here's an article, in Spanish though...

Spoilsport :-P

This actually has ramifications into the 20th century, but the pod is pre-1900. Let's say the Argentine governor in the Falklands doesn't try to tax American whalers by 1832 and the chain of events leading to the British takeover in 1833 is avoided. The Falklands are eventually accepted as part...

Right, it didn't accept

Sure, unless the Cubans were gambling on the USA refusing to be involved. Soviet submarines were operating in the area to spy on the RN. Cuban or Soviets diplomats could say "Yes, our submarines were totally around there, but they absolutely didn't do it" and American diplomats may decide...

Supposedly, Argentina had access to at least one Soviet satellite https://en.mercopress.com/2010/05/31/russian-book-confirms-soviet-intelligence-support-for-argentina-in-malvinas-war . American Landsat satellites which had been hired before the war were also attempted to be used, but only...

Peru handed over Mirage fighters to Argentina and tried to mediate between Argentina and the UK, Cuba and Brazil helped Argentina import weapons from Libya, there are rumors that Cuba and/or the USSR offered to use their submarines to attack the British carriers and let Argentina claim the...

I was thinking of Warsaw Pact countries. As for South America in general, the populations see it as an anti-imperialist struggle while the right wing governments will not want (if it happens under a Junta) for a left wing government to take over if the Junta is humiliated in defeat. And then you...

Yep. The members of the literal Argentine communist party were walking down the streets as if nothing was happening, because Argentina was happily trading food with the USSR. Weird as it may sound, the relationship between Argentina and the USSR during the dictatorship was good. And if it's Cuba...

Well, it sounds like peronism. But have you considered that your second line would make it rather popular? Such an ideology doesn't have to be authoritarian, because it would be poised to win elections if it develops in a democracy

Since Libya had the highest (or at least among the top 5) gdps per capita in the world in the 1960s, when they've discovered oil, why didn't it turn into a world power? That's how looking at estimates of Argentine gdp after the country had recovered from 1890 crisis should sound. Instead, the...