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Thanks for this nugget, Carl. Let us try to look at why Churchill would even commission such a study and perhaps even pushing for having it carried out. The initial objectives of Unthinkable were: - Square deal for Poland - Bend USSR to the will of US/UK What the last part would entail is not...

... and yet they invaded Iran together!

OK, I have to admit one thing: That part of nuclear bombs was a sarcastic side-remark - sorry. Churchill would probably not have considered anything if it had been made clear that US would not be part of a sneak attack. There is a previous thread on this one where one of the points is that...

Not parity at all: Allied USSR Infantry divisions 80 228 Armoured div. 23 36 Tactical aircraft 6,048...

Carl, that is an interesting aspect. Cancelling LL will of course imapct the USSR offensive capabilities, especially in trucks (I believe that the trucks really 'carried' the Soviet victories ('scuse the punt). However, the amount of troops available in the 1944 (Bagration) would still make...

Only later did it get into a 'what if' USSR attacks us? But it still missed the point - why would they?

Unthinkable was Churchill's brainchild. It was a sneak attack on USSR in July 1945 Churchll also wanted to have some 200,000 former german soldiers signing up for it (Barbarossa v2.0) Of course they would be dying for this opportunity. And if the 'real' ones would sign up? 200,000 SS coming...

As I have heard the story it is really far more 'funny': Germany relied totally on importing guano from Chile. It got scraped off those islands off Chile and really no problem. Steady supply. However, nobody thought of ordering plenty of supplies prior to WWI. As a matter of fact, Germany had...

Let us make it even more interesting: Oswald is not only missing, but nobody notices anything. That means that JFK's presidency just continues.

Not trying to hijack this thread, but ... We sometimes overlook some 'funnies'. It is al abut perception in many instances. Joe Kennedy was rather convinced that UK would fall and suggested FDR to not waste time with them. In his opinion, it was a lost cause. Despite Joe Kennedy being a bit...

In hindsight, we all know that it was a wasted effort to keep fighting by late 1944. Just to put it into perspective: Could the same not have been said for Russia in October 1941? They did fight on though.

It could just be that Goering would wake up to reality. Goering was not stupid (IQ past 140 I believe), he got the Blue Max due to personal bravery, etc. Maybe he would get rid of Himmler but keeping Waffen SS. Maybe he would re-orient everything towards Russia. It is easy to see that he...

Maybe slightly outside the topic, but: We are getting close to the upper limits of what can be achieved with a chemical reaction engine. We really need a quantum leap in technology. Improvements in efficiency etc are measured in smaller percentages. There are two new technologies which are...

Maybe the real question to ask is: How to get rid of the US two-party system?

Fair comments. Maybe the electoral college is not the real problem after all. One of things we also need to look at is the fixation on a person. It seems to me (as non-US) that the vote is not for a party with a programme of things, but more focused on a person. After election, the incoming can...

Thanks, Learning all the time. Two things in this: Would it have changed the voter behavior at a national level? Could it have been perceived as a more democratic way of doing things? If that would be so, could we have seen a grassroot push? The other one is the emergence of European-style...

I did not mention Trump

Of course we have the wonderful conspiracy that the Horten was used by USSR and it was the one which crashed at Roswell. With either kids flying it or dwarfs. In which instance it would be operational!

All, Not sure if this is too recent history or not, but here goes: The electoral system might be considered as antiquated and has surely put the spotlight on 'democracy' in a US context. Let us look at the 1960 election where the (first?) major discussion came up - Nixon vs JFK. Due to...

It is a near impossible thread. But let us try to see if there could be some 'easy' fixes': - believe the intelligence coming back: Not underestimating tank production is the first one. The next is to not under-rate Soviet tanks. The appearance of T-34 was a nasty surprise - and it should not...