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I think this sums things up nicely: Give one Arab a gun you get a massacre. Give two Arabs guns you get a war.

Except in the US there was considerable opposition to involvement in Europe and the war there. For example: Up through June 1940, no material purchased by the Commonwealth could be moved to Canada directly. It was moved / flown to the border with Canada then literally physically pushed across...

Like Germany didn't do that several times as it was... :cool: As for Lend Lease, FDR still has to deal with Congress and getting re-elected. He likely isn't going to risk his re-election on supplying the Soviets...

Because the car is an overweight pig with sloppy American suspension, like every burn offering GM had at the time... :rolleyes: It's 1600 lbs. of car (Lotus Europa with me sitting in it and a full tank of gas) versus 3000 lbs. for the Fiasco. One funny thing with the Europa is the gas gauge...

A better engine wouldn't fix the sloppy handling and poor cornering of the Fiero. In that respect, it was doomed to be another mediocre GM product masquerading as a sports car.

Except the Soviets are in a bind. The Germans are on the doorstep of Moscow and they've just pulled most of their veteran forces out of the Far East and Siberia replacing them with raw recruits and crap equipment. That leaves them vulnerable to a Japanese offensive in Manchuria and the Far...

One of the first things to die is Lend Lease. FDR can no longer justify selling or giving military equipment to Britain (outside its use in the Pacific) or to the USSR (totally). The Free French are totally dependent on British largesse for arms. There is no way FDR could have justified...

While the point of departure for this WI is something of a stretch, it is within possibility however slim that may be. It isn't completely ABS however. Weirder things have happened in history. Hitler and Germany enter World War 2 on September 4th 1939 invading Poland. Events occur...

I came up with that little gem myself. It is diabolically evil and it works. I have a couple of ways to make it even sound plausible in terms of Nazi ideology and such. Yes, it's wildly implausible in the OTL but with a little tweaking of history it can be made plausible. Better, there's...

That brings up my favorite "How the Germans win WW 2" scenario since there are so many people that seem to have one. This is the only one I've ever read that might actually do it, even if its a bit on the ABS side of things. That is, everything goes historically up to the Fall of France...

Japan was operating a bit differently in Korea, and would have in Manchukuo as well. Historically, they were Japanifying both countries. That is, the encouraged immigration from Japan, moving to abolish the Korean language, forcing Korean families to register and adopt Japanese surnames, etc...

What you are missing there is something I stated earlier: These programs all advanced each other to one degree or another. With the Navajo program the inertial navigation system for that missile became the N6 system used on nuclear submarines and many other systems for accurate navigation in...

Of that list the only item on it that can really be considered strategic in nature, and purely Hitler's doing, is that he opened a two-front war / continued to expand the war. Declaring war on Russia was a huge blunder that was then compounded by declaring war on the US. Hitler "not...

Actually, the other program was the dual development Snark / Boojum and Nativ / Navajo intercontinental cruise missile programs. These sought to deliver a aerodynamic solution to warhead delivery rather than a ballistic one. Snark http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/app1/sm-62.html...

Actually, the fact that the US had three separate programs was beneficial. Each one produced stuff, often using the same contractors, that then benefited the other programs. NASA other than being an information clearing house really didn't contribute anything close to what the DoD would in...

Seeing as how I own a Lotus Europa (# 2882, a S 3 Twin Cam Federal) I can unequivocally say there is no comparison in performance between the two and never would be. The Fiasco... err Fiero has so many issues in performance that it can never be turned into a performance vehicle. As usual, GM...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3JbMUUilXk Maybe you should watch this video... :eek:

Assuming the leadership could do this and the Army faction not revolt, Japan could win big time. Let's say the following: Japan agrees to withdraw from much of China holding Manchukuo and Korea, along with offshore islands like Formosa and Hainan. One or two larger port cities are held...

Spanish most likely. Spain and Spanish dominance of America amounted to close to 50% of its territory in the continuous 48 states.

That too would be a problem if you couldn't get very monolithic and hard rock. One way that might have worked was using paper-mache for the gas seal. This was done with some types of rounds for cannon. Paper patching bullets was also done. So, if you have a tough paper material or something...