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They fought hard OTL, were respected by the British for it. Hitting one of the four ships the British thought they couldn't afford to lose while at least one was in San Carlos seems like a fair moment for taking a last-ditch hail mary shot.

Don't happen to live there, in fact I don't live anywhere like there (try middle suburbia in a different state working a blue collar job). Don't drink lattes or bottled water. Sorry the stereotype is off.

Picture this for me if you will. You're a young (impressionable), patriotic, ballsy fighter jock in the Argentine Air Force during the Falklands war. The San Carlos landings have just started. There's a briefing for the next strike you're being sent out on. The direction the war is taking is...

What the 'fighting to the death' part? Normandy: all the more harder. Corba breakout: all the more easier.

The Greek population took it pretty hard under occupation. Anyway they could prepare them more for Resistance/SoE/Guerrila warfare?

Mostly the fact that it's gone from a commemoration of the efforts of veterans declining in size alongside their demographics natural fading away to a booming foci for cultural anxieties and militarized identity expression of Anglo-Australians living in a globalized, post-modern world. You...

The pre-war level, yes. Where would they have been in an ATL in the mid-50's without the war though? And damage doesn't necessarily translate to GDP. Consider how long it took London to clear the last of the bomb damage. I will say one thing for WW2 and the economic levels of our day though...

They might not even need to. China has already said it can live with Korea being re-unified & ruled from Seoul if NK really wants war. SK can cut off any aid, re-start propaganda & undermine NK's government enough to push them into trying to make the first move if they want. In doing that...

It'd be interesting to see a 'Battle of Brisbane' that was a fight against a Japanese invasion (instead of the riots that got named that OTL) played out. Presumably they'd land at Gladstone given the entrances to Brisbane's port are so shallow & narrow. Anzac day, Australia day are even more...

Just made me wonder if anyone ever had the crazy idea of putting two or three of these http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dora_%28artillery%29 in a Casemate style structure on a battleship sized ship. "Hey why are we trying to duke it out at 30KM when we can just put the floatplane up there to find...

Yep just a year or two. It did take Europe decades to repair the damage, decades in which they enjoyed fantastic growth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_of_Capitalism One of the effects was to force the ruling classes of the West to bargain with their own workers in order to sustain...

The Economist had an article ages ago mentioning how 1/3rd of the worlds physical capital was destroyed in WW2. They did the numbers, reckoned it set the world back economically by about a year or two. A year or two of growth, averaging in Western economies at about 3% a year.. That plus World...

The Kwangtang Army was being smashed in-between the 8th and 15th of August when Hirohito's surrender announcement was made. Those forces fighting the Soviets fought on, they didn't all suddenly throw down their guns. Soviet forces were in Korea by the 17th of August. OP's timeline is now up to...

Confederates secure a truce, Slavery limps on till the late 1800's/early 1900's. Either the Union backs rebel slaves by proxy in guerrilla resistance or internationalist socialists begin to.

To piss off the Egyptians after the Suez shenanigans? When they were in Sudan they were keen to divide the Sudanese & Egyptians. What better way to poke at the Egyptians with a stick than with a proxy if you can't do it yourself?

The original classification of Australia was 'Terra Nullis' - No ones land. Aboriginals weren't under consideration officially as a people. Until 1967 Indigenous Australians were dealt with by the Government under the Flora & Fauna act. They were literally dealt with as a part of the...

The OP's question was about whether Australia could have continued with racist policies it had historically. I argued it had. Here's a definition of Euphemism: euphemism ˈjuːfəmɪz(ə)m/ noun noun: euphemism; plural noun: euphemisms 1. a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one...

Tasmania is a part of Australia. 'simply the result of demographics' Mystifying euphemisms, apologetic discourse around history etc. There are no Tazmanian aborigines, European settlers subjected them to one of the few completed genocides in the world...

Yes but cars made in the second industrial revolution wouldn't have the extra weight modern cars are deemed to need. As they were then, they'd be practical (simply not as practical as petrol turned out to be. Per OP's question though - uh it's difficult with Geological PoD's being frowned upon...

Meh we still have racist immigration policies, we still face international condemnation for it. WAP was what the country was founded around, literally. What's going on at Manus etc are crimes against humanity. Encampments of innocent people where: The policy is to explicitly punish people...