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Would it have been realistic at all for the French to be able to hold on to Algeria or at least a part of it with a large settler presence?

I loved that show, perhaps more foreign sales would help.

Good point, but the Germans knew the Americans were backing the six, if the US truly believed that Britain would leave NATO, they might intervene to force a compromise. Although de Gaulle was a stubborn sod the pressure could be to much and after all he did want a more intergovernmental Europe...

The US of course could block any IMF loans the UK might request, but I do not think they would want to isolate the UK, especially following the Suez Crisis. There is a Cold War going on and the UK still has a worldwide network bases they can utilize. More likely is that they put enormous...

Yes that is great, thanks for the response.

I thought the Basques had their own government in exile in Paris post-war, under José Antonio Aguirre? Might the more religious Basques now try and strike out on their own instead of sticking with the secular Republicans, with the nationalist threat gone?

Spain and Portugal were not essentially fascist they were authoritarian right wing regimes, yes Spain did have the Falange party, but they were more of just a rubberstamp for the regime. I am finding hard to think of anywhere fascism could have taken hold.

Nowhere on the Wikipedia citation does it say 250kg bombs, it says the SS wanted a superbomb developed that could have the blast radius of up to 4.5km, but only got round to experimenting with bombs the size of 25-50kg.

The Iranians basically offered detente, the US government believing that Iraq would be a cakewalk turned them down. An Iraq without a Shia insurgency would have been a lot more manageable.

I'm really not sure where you are getting the 4km blast range for a few air to ground rockets?

In that case, it would have barely made difference on the battlefield by this stage of the war, only something the size of a MOAB would make a difference.

Could any of their aircraft carry anything the equivalent size of a MOAB though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBU-43/B_Massive_Ordnance_Air_Blast

You need to prevent the Western intervention in Libya or at least the movement of fighters and weapons to Syria from there.

They would need to develop something the size of a US MOAB to make a real difference, the question is how would they deliver it.

There are few French and British overseas territories that could be added to the list if London and Paris decide they are not worth the hassle. But as previously stated India is the big one.

During the negotiations for a Western Europe wide Free Trade Area between the six common market members and the seven who eventually formered EFTA, Harold Macmillian threatened de Gaulle that Britain might pull its troops off the continent and leave NATO. What if he goes through with this...

At the time of the Steel and Coal community Britain still produced half the production of both in Western Europe, it is a big ask for Britain to surrender control to a foreign body at this time. Europe was always the the lowest priority of the three circles foreign policy and at the time British...

An Iran in this timeline would undoubtedly be the preeminent military and economic power in the Middle East, with possibly nuclear weapons, especially after the Indian and Pakistani coming out in the late 1990s. What would be interesting though would be the Pakistani-Saudi relationship in this...

You need to seal that big border with Pakistan to be able to secure the country properly, to have a realistic chance of rebuilding Afghanistan. Which would mean sending all the US and British troops that went to Iraq there instead, detente with Iran would also be recommended to secure the...

Indeed, from what I gather the Republicans were really just held hostage by the Communists during the Civil War, because of the lack of another external supplier other than the USSR and the carting off of Spanish gold reserves to Moscow early on. Was there not a coup against the Communists in...