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So all that's needed as a POD is for Japan to rage quit from the Second London Naval Treaty earlier in an much more dramatic fashion... or a more relaxed Second London Naval Treaty to begin with (so most likely a UK POD). My question is, best for what? Duke it out with other BBs? Carrier escort...

Oh... nice, we both have the enterprise as our avvie. XD Didn't realize that until now.

I'm guessing that in this case they would have actually received those 2 battleships from the UK, which would still be the centerpiece of their navy come WWII. The biggest question being how much of an economy (i.e. budget) do they get to play with? Are they able to exploit the oil reserves in...

The solution is "simple": not kicking the Russians while they're down in the 90s and not treat them like some discount soviet union that's hell bent on conquest. Right now Mordor and discount Mordor are basically the 2 unpopular kids in the corner: they both might not like each other, but both...

Low quality image of Soviet heavy tank during Stalin's invasion of Europe.

You need a few things: -Western European countries recovering economically (and growing too I guess) a lot faster -UK & France (but mostly UK) far more willing to maintaining their grip on their colonies and their imperial ambitions -US being a lot more distracted by the Far East and wherever...

No, you don't want to know. But if you really want to know Wikipedia does mention some of that at some point... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puyi

Apocalypse tank on display at the Soviet-Sino arms expo.

A more hardcore version of Saudi Arabia perhaps? although OTL Saudi Arabia is kinda like that already?

You want a second holocaust? Because that's how you get a second holocaust. You put all the jews in a small place surrounded by people who don't like them very much (to put it mildly)... Who though? The Soviets? Stalin was busy purging the jews from his government and country. The US? They got...

Not sure if you're being disingenuous or genuinely missing the point. There's a vast difference between Germany's context in WWI and Afghanistan's performance in its various conflicts. The former took on the world in a peer fight, at times taking the war to their opponent's lands. That rarely...

Well, for one, there's a lot of ground/land in Russia/Eastern Front, for the same reasons that the eastern front in WWI was also a lot more fluid than the western front.

Even Conway mentioned it as much actually (basically every non UK ship they bought had more issues and problems). (although the 1860-1905 volume was a lot more opinionated than the later volumes...)

Could be worse, at least it made it to service. Unlike, say, Japan's Unebi, which didn't even make it through delivery. (It's like buying a Christmas present only for the UPS to lose it on the way...)

You misunderstand my second part, where I meant to say that who cares how silly the concept sounds as long as they work well enough... i.e. there's no shame in using sails.

So do the sails actually work? If so who cares then?

-If you're looking for someone in the intelligence service becoming the president, then it's George H. W. Bush, just tweak him a bit... -If you're looking for a really fit and charismatic person becoming the president and establish a cult of personality, then have a big Hollywood star (so not...

The Soviet military industrial complex was already struggling to keep up with what they could see the West was building by the early 1980s: So even without a SDI as a boogeyman the soviets will be crying uncle within the decade. Cold war is unlikely to go much longer than that regardless of...

-"Best" case scenario: the USSR snaps back into the bad old days and continues to hobble along, becoming ever more irrelevant technological, economic, and militarily speaking. -"Worse" case scenario: USSR suffer internal collapse and the Soviet people will experience the unique joys of the...

Well, guess Japan won't be a bulwark against anybody anytime soon...