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Didn’t even think of SSBNs. Germany lacks an equivalent of Montana or Siberia, somewhere remote and far from enemy territory to give them that crucial 10-15 mins to respond to icbm launches, so would need to construct a large number of SSBN’s in such a scenario. Can’t help but laugh at the...

The German navy, especially the surface navy, in both world wars never really got the chance to shine. In the first, they spent the majority of the war bottled up in port and were forced to retreat in the large battles they did participate in. In the second, they were laughably outnumbered and...

With an industrialized China against japan, Russia, and the other imperialists in Asia the East Asian theatre will have millions of deaths, unlike the afterthought it was OTL. I predict a Japanese landing in Korea supported by a Russian offensive south through manchuria with the goal of linking...

I can see German colonial soldiers playing a role similar to French colonial soldiers played in OTL WW1, helping hold the line and more than earning the respect of the Europeans. Hopefully in this timeline such sacrifices are acknowledged (the French OTL rewarded their colonial soldiers with...

I personally am a big fan of PODs based on random circumstances like that. Also a really big fan of this TL, keep it up!

I’m loving the almost SCP like vibe of this thread.

That’s a problem with all AH unfortunately. No matter how well researched and detailed your TL is, or how much you believe/disbelieve the butterfly effect, eventually after a certain amount of time has past you simply have a make your own judgements as to how things go down. Who’s to say what...

I feel like most AH.com members have gotten used to TLs where a country “reforms” or “modernizes” (or whatever the buzzword of the week is) its economy and suddenly experiences explosive growth. In reality, most economic growth, even in successful countries, doesn’t parallel the meji...

I’m still eagerly waiting for a TL where the “WW2” analog is a massive (and at least partially successful) colonial uprising in India, Africa, and Asia that America or some other great power supports to weaken the Europeans.

“No Soviet Union” TLs are fun because leftist idealogies and movements around the world aren’t railroaded into their Soviet sponsor’s ideology, nor do they have to deal with being perceived to be in league with the soviets and supportive of whatever actions the soviets take.

Most likely answer: he gets nowhere in politics. If I had the writing ability, one TL I could consider writing would be Hitler choosing to apprentice under that Jewish doctor he knew in his youth. He remains relatively unknow, and when WW2 comes around (under alt!Nazis) Hitler takes in a...

Looks like WW1/WW2 Italy has competition for most incompetent military.

Was Mao a competent militant? I was under the impression he was just good at political maneuvering/backstabbing and getting people to follow him.

“End of history” is complete nonsense. Forget ideologies, the human species itself has been around for an infinitesimally small amount of time in the cosmic scale. The world is always evolving, and to think that it will conform to a single standard is the height of arrogance.

That will certainly be a rather awkward situation, considering how close those two no doubt heavily fortified structures will be to each other.

If the recent post is any indication, there will be different factions within the movement for or against allying with other ethnic groups.

So it looks like the familiar Arab nationalist/revolutionaries vs Arab monarchy conflict will be had TTL, except this time the nationalists will be the underdogs.

Didn’t even think of this. Even if they really aren’t, how do the soviets know that the Americans aren’t developing the tech needed to militarize space?

It really was amazing how lucky we got OTL with the planetary alignment. Giving that up for a one off mission just doesn’t sit right.

Victor’s peace rarely lends itself to long term stability and reduction of tensions.