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I thought Russia annexed Lithuania in like 1940. Might be misremembering. Anyways, if there was to be a coup d'etat in Berlin, who would the ringleaders be? Depending on the circumstances I could see Goering going either way depending on who was stronger, but Himmler and Goebbels would probably...

BTW, as a geopolitical force, is the Scandinavian Union purely defensive or is it more proactive in opposing the Soviets? Specifically, would they be at all concerned with curtailing Soviet influence in the Baltic States? Also, the Soviet's fighting capacity wasn't hindered much by Stalin's purges?

Think the Italians could enter the war when allied victory is inevitable in exchange for more Austrian territory? Or were they too burned by WWI for that? Is there anymore Austrian territory Italy could conciebably want?

Well what exactly would Italy expect to extract from Germany? Germany can't invest in Italy, and basically every resource Germany has is going towards its war effort.

So what are diplomatic relations between Germany and Italy like? It seems to me they have very little to offer each other ITTL.

How hard would it have been to crack the line do you think? I've heard that some of the Garrisons ended up under strength. Also curious what Belgium's reputation in this war will be. It's contributions in WWI, mainly in stalling the Kaiser's armies when they had been expected to roll over...

So would you say that the criticism the Maginot Line received IOTL, primarily an over-reliance on static defenses in an era of motorized maneuver warfare, is unjustified? It seems like the detractors think the French actually believed the Germans would try to breach the Maginot Line and the...

Maybe they want to settle white colonists in areas taken from Moro insurgents?

Wondering, what will be the legacy of the Maginot lin ITTL? OTL its considered a strategic and logistical blunder, but I wonder if, by forcing the Nazi attack vector through a narrow front in the Low Countries, if it'll be considered a success, albiet a not entirely efficient one.

I think all this legalese is missing the more fundamental point of secessionist movements. Whether a secessionist movement succeeds or fails is dependent on: 1)The separatists capacity to support an independent state And: 2)A foreign nation's interest and capacity to recognize and...

Oh was wondering, as a Luxury Liner enthusiast, will Normandie survive the war and be preserved like the Queen Mary? I think she was an absolutely gorgeous art deco age ship and it was a shame that she had to be scrapped because of the fire.

Uh, does ISIS in Iraq and Syria count?

Oh I'm not saying there aren't gonna be issues. The Haganah and Irgun are still going to be a thorn in the British side. Though do you think the Grand Mufti not going to the Balkans would have an effect on Palestine? Maybe there's another Great Arab uprising since he's not off running with...

Kinda curious what will happen in the ME. Jordan and Iraq, for the time being, should be the same since they were more or less sovereign states. (I wonder if the Egyptian Monarchy will be overthrown though) But I wonder about British Palestine and French Syria. What were the Entente's plans for...

Question: Will much of Iranian history be butterflied? I'm thinking there's no Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran, obviously, so doesn't that mean Mossadegh and Op. Ajax are butterflied away? Maybe Iran transitions to a Constitutional Monarchy.

Wouldn't that make him even more likely to be Putsch'd by party hardliners?

I take it an independent (de facto) Egypt, Sudan and South Africa/SW Africa, is still going to happen more or less as OTL then?

Well I'm talking about how the Great Patriotic War solidified Soviet (and specifically Stalin's) control over Russia. I dunno if he could just keep purging the military and intelligentsia ad nauseum without it. I'm mainly focusing on Africa as far as Britain (and France as well), since India...

I don't mind it being Britwank, like I said I see Britain still being a superpower. Do you think a more powerful Britain will move to a commonwealth system sooner and thus help preserve the Empire? I dunno what the end result for Russia will be, whether no WWII is a boon or hindrance for...

What was Germany's stance on the Catholic church at this point anyways? I thought generally the Reich and the See were on... not friendly but relatively cordial terms. I know Hitler himself wanted to see all the Bishops hung, but I thought the church structure in Bavaria was relatively intact...