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  1. WI Allied Victory at Java Sea?

    DING-DING-DING Ladies and Gentlemen we have a winner! The Record for Thread Necromancy has been SHATTERED! TEN YEARS, FIVE MONTHS AND 11 DAYS! Heaven protect the poor soul who breaks this one.
  2. How long could a Nazi insurgency have lasted?

    Depends. In the Soviet Zone, it would last as long as it took for the NKVD to persuade the population that shelter the insurgents was a really poor choice. Considering Beria's mindset that wouldn't take very long. In the Western Occupation Zones it depends. The French wouldn't be quite NKVD...
  3. Assuming no Pearl Harbor, how long until the US is at war with Germany?

    Reasonable guess is late spring of 1942. The USN was increasing its escort close to mid Atlantic for UK bound convoys and the effort was beginning to complicate the U-boat offensive. Eventually one side or the other will go too far (worth keeping in mind that a U-boat tried to get a shot at the...
  4. The French Crime of 1873, or Was the International Gold Standard Really Inevitable?

    Pre 1900 remember? Current politics goes into Chat down at the bottom of the main page.
  5. Timeline: No D-Day; Japan went south.

    Actually Japan doing as well as they did is almost ASB. It took some truly bad leadership in the Philippines and Malaya to keep them moving forward as long as they did. By rights they should never have gotten past Java. If they had waited to engage the U.S. until late 1942 they wouldn't have...
  6. Timeline: No D-Day; Japan went south.

    It was the TBF.
  7. Timeline: No D-Day; Japan went south.

    Simply not going to happen this way. Problems include Military: 1. The IJN in 1940 is very much not the IJN of December 1941. The A6M is NOT in full service, Neither is the D3A, in fact the first A6M squadron isn't equipped until July 1940 and it is a land based squadron that starts...
  8. Single Stage to Orbit spacecraft and spaceplanes a reality?

    Well, thanks for stopping by. You can exit via the door to your left. We are fixing the screen you got in through. Do let us know when the shuttle lands. Oh, and don't forget your tin foil hat. Banned We divorce you.
  9. WI Yamashita Succeeded? Very Different World??

    Kamikaze Zombie sighted. Corsair inbound. Splash One.
  10. Nuclear Weapons in a Continued Cold War

    Even expensive guidance systems are cheap compared to the cost of a nuclear weapons in pure dollar terms. The political ramifications, of course, make the cost saving less than insignificant. Nuclear weapons were, and are, the stuff of nightmares once the global inventory reached around 50...
  11. What if there was no Islam?

    Oh. MY. GOD! Nice bit of Bigotry there We divorce you .
  12. Best Argentine Falklands Strategy

    Retreat. Fast. Find Scapegoat. Fast.
  13. Timeline In A Week: On To Berlin!

    Jeez, can't you do a little less outraged? Okay. Mistakes; and mistakes about your country. Got it. Check. Chill out.
  14. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Japanese culture is utterly unrecognizable compared to OTL. Just the greatly increased number civilian fatalities ensured that. Japan was more or less one giant OTL Leningrad before the collapse. To say that the collective phyche of the Japanese people was destroyed is not an overstatement...
  15. John McCain wins 2008 election, dies, and Sarah Palin becomes President

    DO NOT bring current actual political debate into post 1900. Have a perfectly lovely Chat thread for that.
  16. Hitler's importace to Final Soloution

    Himmler, Goring, and Goebbels, to name a few, were hard core anti-Semites. There were, unquestionably others in the structure who were mere careerists who lacked a soul, but the top guns were all very much on the same page as Hitler
  17. Hitler's importace to Final Soloution

    Moderator here, and probably the self appointed Nazi Hunter of the Mod team, at that. There is an almost unbridgeable chasm between being a Nazi/Nazi Fanboy, and discussing/debating exactly what words Hitler used. Someone mentioned Thomas Beckett as an example of what may well have happened...
  18. Hitler's importace to Final Soloution

    One of the things that is sometimes unappreciated about the Reich is that, while Hitler was the one with the charisma and natural ability to gather followers, the senior leadership was pretty much 100% sociopath anti-Semitic in nature. Hitler unquestionably gave the order to act, but his...
  19. AHC: Who is the worst person you can get leading your nation?

    Wendell Willkie. (1940 carried 10 states, 82 Electoral votes) Not because he was a terrible human being or a lunatic, but because, IMO, FDR was exactly the right man at the right time to have as POTUS during one of the great pivot points in history. Strom Thurmond (1948 4 states, 39 Electoral...
  20. Question: Has there ever been a proposal to move the US federal capital?

    Cancel the movers. Zombie has been run over by U-Haul van.
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