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  1. What's the longest Britain could have held onto Hong Kong?

    The CCP started to care what the population thought about policy when exactly? It sure wasn't in 1997. It definitely wasn't when the UK was trying make a deal in the 1980s. I seem to recollect the PLA running over peaceful protesters with MBT in Central Beijing during that period.
  2. What's the longest Britain could have held onto Hong Kong?

    Depends on exactly how far the UK is willing to go. If the UK is willing and ready to exercise a nuclear option and states so publicly as well as privately, thereby putting 50-100 million PRC civilians under constant, imminent threat of horrific death or maiming, then it can hold the region...
  3. AHC: The Great War Forever.

    Closed at OP request.
  4. WI: Edward VIII refuses to abdicate and still marries Wallis?

    Remove him through some part of the Act of Succession? Cut him off from any funds and leave him poor as dirt (power of the purse)? Behead him if they want? Wouldn't exactly be the first time. The Monarch of the United Kingdom is a Bully Pulpit, that's it. No actual power. Doesn't even get...
  5. WI: Edward VIII refuses to abdicate and still marries Wallis?

    I think the last British Monarch who might have been able to defy Parliament was William IV and even that would be pushing it. By the 20th Century, there wasn't a chance in Hell.
  6. Can Non-Nazi (just fascist) Axis Win a "recognizable" WW2?

    Not a chance. Only a lunatic with delusions of godhood (like Hitler) would have even attempted to start the war from where Germany started, with the limitations on raw materials Germany faced in any confrontation with the UK or U.S. or USSR, much less all three. Japan has no hope to...
  7. early American colonists comfortably pro-masturbation?

    Seriously? I thought we got this whole "creepy teen" scenario bull out our collective systems, Thread locked.
  8. 东方红 (The East is Red)

    You have just about hit the end of the trail here. You have been restating the same points for the last three pages. You have made your point. Clearly the OP has chosen to go in a different direction. You have a couple options here. 1. Accept that you will not be able to change this thread...
  9. 东方红 (The East is Red)

    They could, but to what end? Kill as many people as died in WW I to institute regime change in the DPRK? That would more or less put Truman and MacArthur right next to Mao, Stalin and Pol Pot as mass murderers.
  10. WI Albania Votes to Join US

    Oops, wrong. You've been here for two years, you should know that this sort of post is utterly unacceptable. Chill out.
  11. 东方红 (The East is Red)

    Well in Korea this last point was quite nearly realized.
  12. 东方红 (The East is Red)

    I would quibble with the part I highlighted above insofar as the lack was will and not ability. The UN forces were unwilling to accept the high casualties necessary to significantly alter the conditions on the ground. It was, as is always a major factor, a situation where one side, the UN...
  13. 东方红 (The East is Red)

    There is the fact that the USSR could have radically altered the air situation had it so chosen. MiG-15s were, in general, on par with the F-86 with each aircraft having advantages in certain types of engagement. Soviet fighter pilots had learned their trade the same way the USAF pilots did...
  14. 东方红 (The East is Red)

    Firepower isn't an "automatic win" button. It is, however, very much a strong "not lose" button. To go through the examples: 1. The British were heavily involved in WW I. 2. Here is the limit of superiority, The PLA pushed as far as it could before being stopped in place. The UN forces...
  15. 东方红 (The East is Red)

    Please do not drop to the level of personal attack and insult. There are more than sufficient ways to dispute and debate without blowing a valve.
  16. US VS Britain naval question.

    The U.S. had SIX South Dakota class BB under construction on April 10 1921 (first ship had keel laid in March 1920, last April 4, 1921) as well as five Lexington Class BC, with the sixth Lexington with 1st Steel in June of 1921. At that time the U.S. has 12 capital ships under construction...
  17. Bill clinton has an affair with a male intern

    This thread might actually be an innocent victim, but given the title it is history as part of the copy-cat flood.
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