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  1. Soviet Union Survives

    Yea. They only managed to kill 15-20% more of their own citizens than the Reich managed with the Final Solution.
  2. Soviet Union Survives

    Romania? I would have sworn the post said Poland or the DDR.
  3. Soviet Union Survives

    WTF??? Care to share your data on that?
  4. Soviet Union Survives

    Where do you draw the conclusion that the U.S. & USSR were similar in any way? The USSR was run, from Day One, by a bloodthirsty, utterly brutal, despotic regime that maintained power through terror and threat of internal exile to work camps (e.g. slave labor camps) without trial, execution...
  5. Rwanda?

    Probably not more than the genocide, since it killed somewhere between 500K and 1 million people & I doubt it would have taken than high of a butcher's bill to convince both sides to back off. Still, you have a valid point. The problem is that all we really could have done was drop in airborne...
  6. Operation Orpheus

    Actually it would require a considerable increase in supply. The Italian forces were primarily infantry while the Heer units were mechanized and armored units. It requires far more to keep mechanized forces going than straight infantry. German troops also received better (and more) rations than...
  7. WI: Dunkirk fails?

    There is a stunning difference between alternative timelines and ASB intervention level events. The series of events that brought and kept Hitler in power, allowed him to bluff his way to 1940, and then defeat France, are already so bizarre and unique that altering them to suit some vision of an...
  8. Operation Orpheus

    This is so far off the rails now that it is ASB. Nevertheless - Stalin would have ridden the Non-Aggression Pact to the end (he had an interesting habit in the area of following deadlines in written agreement). The Pact was always seen as Stalin as an opprotunity to buy time. There are any...
  9. WI: Dunkirk fails?

    How different? If you still have Hitler assuming power, there is a very finite amount of difference possible. If you eliminate Hitler you also eliminate the rather crazy risks he took (virtually all of which worked until Barbarossa). No sane ruler would have remilitarized the Rhineland...
  10. Operation Orpheus

    Because it isn't as easy as it seems. The USN did a far better job of blockading Japan than the Kreigsmarine ever achieved (or dreamed of achieving) against Britain, and Japan wasn't starved out after 18 months. (Although by early '46, that would have changed since the USN & USAF had started...
  11. WI: Dunkirk fails?

    Why would the majority of the British colonies let the the Germans take them? The forces in the Raj would have kicked the snot out of any German force that could be transported there. The RN would still be a serious force, if if Great Britain was somehow taken (pack a lunch), even if only the...
  12. Operation Orpheus

    # 1. Pretty much happened #2. The Germans lacked sufficient sea lift to move additional forces to Africa in the numbers suggested. They also lacked sufficient escorts to defend additional convoys even if the additional bottoms could be found (and every additional merchant ship is roughly 1.5...
  13. WI: Dunkirk fails?

    The reality is that the UK, even if Dunkirk only sees the success it was designed to achieve (50K EVACUATED), is not in bad shape. The Commonwealth hasn't even begun to be tapped, the RN is still in total control of the Channel (something the Wehrmacht is in no position to change), and all the...
  14. No Pacific Theater in WW2: Effects on Europe?

    Stays in the Philippines and plays Shogun?
  15. WI: Dunkirk fails?

    50K was all the RN thought it would evacuate. Everything above that was a bonus. Zero chance of the UK ending the war. There are several threads on this question here that go into some detail on the subject (unfortunately, they are slightly spoiled by the comments of a since banned poster).
  16. WI A South Americn War

    Very much agree. The Venezuelan arms purchases look impressive as all hell.*and the SU-30's are far & away the class of South America, but the quality of the troops operating the weapons is an open question. Chavez doesn't seem to know how to actually build a coherent force (Columbia, on the...
  17. Europeans at Gettysburg

    It often ignored that the Union forces on both wings were HUGE. Had Grant been in command one wing of the Federal force would have rolled down on Lee's battered force and crushed it. It would have been bloody for both sides (as if it already hadn't been a bloodbath) but the Union troops would...
  18. WI France a sea power?

    France WAS a sea power. It's ships were consistantly better in design and construction than comparable RN designs and it would generally give a good account of itself when in action (frex: Virginia Capes, where the French defeated the RN leaving Yorktown untenable). The problem wasn't French...
  19. Europeans at Gettysburg

    It would be interesting. The great killer on the 3rd day was artillery, with rifled muskets over the last 400 yards or so. Any attacking force is under fire and direct observation for a mile and a half. There is also the fact that virually all the Federal forces were veterans, while a...
  20. Ideal British WW2 Multi-role Plane?

    IOTL. In a TL that demanded the requirements set out, it would be possible to push the development back a year or so. It wasn't revolutionalry design, simply a progression of current design to meet a new stated need.
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