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  1. wi:Britain sells oil to Japan pre ww2

    This would have been my suggestion as well. That, some Google-Fu, and maybe a trip to a well connected public or university library. As to the question regarding the UK selling oil. Britain imported 11 MILLION or more tons of oil every full year of the war. No oil to sell.
  2. WI: Edward VIII marries Wallis and keeps the throne?

    Exactly how much hardball was Parliament willing to play? AFAIK, the elected government controls ALL the money. If not, they very much DO have the power to tax whatever they so choose, like the Royal estates at a rate of 99.998% of appraised value. Might get a bit nippy if the Government won't...
  3. wi:Britain sells oil to Japan pre ww2

    The U.S. stops supplying the UK with everything from Aluminum to zippers and they have to seek terms by mid 1941. Britain fought alone. They weren't completely alone. The British had no interest in violating the U.S. embargo (the UK was fully in agreement with it, the Japanese threatened...
  4. wi:Britain sells oil to Japan pre ww2

    Zero chance. They were buying oil from the U.S. to survive.
  5. WI: Kucinich Challenges Obama 2012

    He gets beaten like an old drum. Again.
  6. wi:Britain sells oil to Japan pre ww2

    The Japanese didn't HAVE any tankers (well, almost, they did have 38 or 3.2% of the world total). That was one of Japan's major issues. They literally didn't have enough Japanese flagged merchant bottoms to provide survival level supply, either in oil or in food/materials. Japan had 38 oil...
  7. wi:Britain sells oil to Japan pre ww2

    Define pre WW II? Before 1939? Before 1941? The British (as well as the Dutch and U.S.) did sell oil, at least on paper, to Japan until mid 1940, although British sales more or less ended in a practical sense once the Battle of the Atlantic was joined. The British needed every taker...
  8. Anglo-American War in 1895

    Guess I have to make it formal. Play the ball, not the man. I am getting REALLY tired of this Micky Mouse crap. Frustrated bears are a bad thing.
  9. REFORGER for World War II Philippines?

    Not really. The problem is that the Philippines are in the tropics. The heat and humidity played hell with everything. You could do okay with rifles, as long as they weren't used (cosmoline is great at that, but you can't use a weapon that is literally packed in grease, even then the wooden...
  10. WI eastern germany adopts the ME262

    The Pact countries didn't use Soviet equipment because it was the best, or because of interoperability efforts. They used Soviet systems because the HAD to. The Soviets used the budgets of the entire Warsaw Pact to pay for R&D and to defray the cost of their massive nuclear force. The Soviets...
  11. REFORGER for World War II Philippines?

    Probably not. Wouldn't matter in any case. The Commonwealth didn't have the money needed to bring in a couple hundred bF-109 or Spitfires (the official U.S. Army histories describe the budget as "minscule"). It didn't have the money to buy a couple hundred SPADs (assuming there were that many...
  12. Rumsfeldia: Fear and Loathing in the Decade of Tears

    Uh... Pinochet was a bloodthirsty dictator of the 2nd order. He failed to achieve the grandness of his political brothers-in-arms like Stalin & Hitler solely due to his lack of ambition. 40,000 people were tortured, specifically for voicing opposition to his Junta, over 3,000 of them were...
  13. AHC/WI: Subic Bay Chosen over Pearl Harbor

    The only reason the Fleet was forward deployed as far as Pearl was as a deterrent. Prior to May of 1941 the Battle Fleet was home ported on the West Coast (San Pedro, CA). Permanently home porting the fleet that far forward would have left the U.S. West Coast completely unprotected. Even...
  14. REFORGER for World War II Philippines?

    Short answer is no. The U.S. didn't HAVE the materials, especially vehicles, to leave in place. The War Department didn't have the funding to ensure that sort of pre-positioning was even properly maintained and inventoried, much less pay for it. Secondly, and more importantly, Reforager...
  15. Anglo-American War in 1895

    Y'all start sniping at each other in here and you will both get some time on the beach. Play the ball.
  16. Falklands Question

    A better CV is a dead CV. The RN had SSN out there. There isn't a sub commander ever born that doesn't dream of sinking an enemy carrier. Biggest coup stick there is. In the USN they are called "Navy Crosses waiting to happen".
  17. WI the Dutch Navy acquired capital ships

    Massive waste of time and money. If the Dutch fleet had the money to build one super-dreadnought they could have instead built three CL and 3-5 DD. The best thing the Netherlands fleet could have purchased were subs, both coast and long endurance, along with a set of...
  18. What if The Force Awakens Script was filmed 1999?

    Lucas would have made the exact same sort of film as he did with the prequels. He made movies for 12 year old boys, the original trilogy and the prequels are the same in that manner. The prequels seem so bad for those who cut their teeth on the originals is simply because they are no longer...
  19. fast escort for carriers

    Where & when? Implacable was not available before 1944, that isn't early WW II. In the Med it would be iffy. In the North Atlantic it would be okay, capable of handling the potential threat environment. In the Pacific, its meat on the table.
  20. fast escort for carriers

    Depends on the weapons mix. The Iowas were exceptionally good at the escort role (realistically the Iowa and her sisters were BC to the never built Montanas BB. Whether they were the best choice for the role is a different question. IMO they were not. The Iowa class ships cost $100M+ and...
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