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I'm astonished that there are 9 people voting 'no' in the poll. The Poles were outnumbered and outclassed in every category. Unless the Western Allies and the Soviets attack Germany at this point, there's no hope for the Poles. Speaking of which, what were the plans if France and Britain...

It's called 11 carrier battle groups. That means unless we have another ice age and Russian tanks can roll over Beringia it's not happening.

Given the establishment of much larger, widespread, and longer-lived urban civilizations throughout North America, wouldn't they likely have developed generally stronger immune systems and their own set of lethal diseases? You might expect to see a somewhat smaller die off and the infliction of...

Russia might be a little more careful about incursions into Georgia proper, and the west might make a lot more noise, but even if Georgia managed to get into NATO with the South Ossetia/Abkazia issues, it wouldn't be able to march into South Ossetia without Russian intervention, and no one is...

What happens if Germany overtakes the Royal Navy in shipbuilding and beats them at Jutland? German naval domination might lead to closer relations with the United States and the US siding with Germany. Ultimately land warfare proved to be indecisive and it was the supply situation that...

Ugh! Who would want to waste their vacation in Poland? Unless high- quality low-price prostitution is your thing, I'd avoid it at all costs. I had a friend who went to Warschau and he said that once you left the rebuilt tourist areas you could still find ruins from the Second War! Not to...

That was kind of the prospect that made me think of this scenario. If the Allies occupied most of South-Eastern Europe(Rumanian oilfileds being a strategic target) they might cut off the Soviets from occupying much of Eastern Europe. On the other hand the reality is that once you are in the...

Rather than an invasion up a narrow mountainous peninsula with shitty infrastructure, the western allies opt for an invasion into a mountainous section of Southern Europe with nonexistant infrastructure? Could the allies get anywhere with such an attack?

Saddam Hussein had had weapons of mass destruction. He killed almost 40,000 Iranians and Kurds with gas during the Iran-Iraq War, half of them Iranian soldiers. He did not use them against Kuwait and seems to have had largely dismantled his WMD programs to comply with UN sanctions before we...

The reason Karzai was chosen was because they needed a Pashtun face for the Northern Alliance if they were to have any hope of legitimacy(of course they picked Karzai knowing he was an utterly corrupt western stooge). Massoud was not Pashtun and a Massoud presidency would have caused more...

Well you have to realize that the US didn't have the capacity to produce a ton of nukes. There would only be a handfull available up until the end of the war, and considering the conventional bomb damage that Germany sustained, I think it could handle having a few cities nuked. As to a nerve...

Clinton would reap the same popularity boost that Bush did OTL. This would benefit Gore in the election much more than it would Bush who had no foreign policy experience to speak of. Gore will win and then the war in Afghanistan will not be run by the neo-con hardliners and would probably...

There are a few problems with dropping the bomb on Germany, especially in 1944. As has been mentioned German air defence was much more of a threat than Japanese air defence at the end of the war. When you've only got a handfull of bombs this can make things difficult, especially over any major...

It's really not too hard to imagine. People forget that there were some very strong right-wing currents in the US in the 20's and 30's. There were large movements that admired what the fascists and nazis were doing. The pledge of allegiance, which was originally said with a nazi-style salute to...

No invasion of Greece and a more conservative and defensive Battle of Britain would have allowed Barbarossa to start in May and succeed, and Russia might largely out of the war by '43 at which point resources can be redirected either to some sort of Sealion operation or more likely defeating the...