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  1. German worldwide ban on WWII games

    Every country with "freedom of speech", starting with the U.S. (likely beginning in either the 2nd or 9th Circuit Court of Appeals) throws the law out as a restriction on free political expression. Germany is found to have violated several freedom of expression elements of the EU compact and...
  2. What Was the American Civil War about?

    Somebody on the Ken Burns series The Civil War, it MIGHT have been Shelby Foote, said it best: The Civil War was over a single question "Is or Are?" As in "the United States IS doing X" vs. "the United States ARE doing X" Everything else, from free navigation of the Mississippi to slavery...
  3. WI Chemical Warfare Used in WWII

    Chemical weapons would have not made a bit of difference. The truth is that chemical weapons were never used because the ROI wasn't there. The cost to your own forces, both in gross casualties AND in efficiency of your own troops in a chemical enviroment was such that neither side saw a...
  4. Sunrise Lands Speculation

    The Sunrise Lands indicates that there is some sort of abnormality where Nantucket used to be. Spoiler The site seems to have a nexus where a number of different realities (universes?) come together. If you stand at the nexus, it seems that you can see yourself in many different realities...
  5. No Jews

    Without the religious ideas that came from Judiasm, ranging for the entire concept of a "Father" singular God to the concept of Paradise (Pre jewish, even early jewish (Sheol) after lifes were more or less Hell. You went to "The Pit" where you ate mud forever in many of the middle-eastern...
  6. Long Lance torps.

    Not really. Big guns were effective at 20K+ yards even before WW I, by WW II they were effective at 35K+ (IOW Over the visible Horizon, needing spotting aircraft) or very close to the max range of the LL & much greater than the range of other torpedoes. The big gun could be fired, drop of shot...
  7. Long Lance torps.

    The Long Lance, had everyone had them, would have changed the war mainly in the Battle of the Atlantic, where the U-Boats would have been somewhat more effective. In the Pacific the American war effort in the first two years would have greatly benefited, especially given the horrible...
  8. What if The Japanese won WWII?

    The IJA was, simply put, utterly incapable of facing ANY combined Arms army, regardless of origin. The example of the Red Army, both in 1938, against the Kwangtung Army (which was Japan's best & brightest) and then in 1945 against what was still the best supplied IJA force, are the endleaves of...
  9. How well Could Japan have done?

    1) No significant difference as to the outcome of the war UNLESS the Japanese do it differently than IOTL. In that case the effectiveness of the U.S. subs would drop, probably by as much as 20-25% (this assumes that the Japanese adopt Anglo-American tactics, including H/K groups) but the...
  10. Jane Fonda Vs Richard Nixon

    The thing is, you DO NOT have to be in a war to aid an enemy or to commit treason. You can not LEVY war, but the aid & comfort issue doesn't break quite that way (e.g. Walker Spy Ring; they plea bargined out of Treason charges although there was no actual "hot" war at the time). Spying can...
  11. Patton in the sun

    Not really. Bradley was the Army Group commander & he would have relieved Patton if he made a move like that. Would have, however, done very nicely for starting the West/USSR war that Hitler had predicted when Third Army ran headlong into the 1st Ukranian Front that had been assigned there to...
  12. Jane Fonda Vs Richard Nixon

    I don't think treason COMES with a slap on the wrist. Current U.S. law: TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 115 > § 2381 Prev | Next § 2381. Treason Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the...
  13. What if The Japanese won WWII?

    Okay.:) Just remember, most of them were also fairly junior officers and were IGNORED until there was no alternative.
  14. Patton in the sun

    Not to mention the number of times he did it with Bradley in the ETO. It was never to the extent of what happened in Sicily, but he tended to chafe at the bit.
  15. Patton in the sun

    Patton in Korean is truly a stunning though. As a replacement for McArthur, instead of Ridgeway, his tactical sense would have created a far different post-Chosin war. He would have utterly despised the Korean Peninsula, with it's mountains and narrow valleys, it is not the tank/armored cav...
  16. What if The Japanese won WWII?

    In 1945 the Red Air force was HUGE, with tons of veteran pilots (who had, BTW survived the best that the Luftwaffe had, all the top German aces were in the East, while compiling quite impressive numbers of victories) and nearly 15,000 combat aircraft, most of them of 1944 & later vintage. It was...
  17. What if The Japanese won WWII?

    If the Japanese had managed to hold off the U.S. (something that would require a FLOCK of ASBs) they would enjoy their vistory for a very brief period of time. Stalin would have, quite correctly, have seen their continental territory as ripe for the picking. As I have mentioned in the past...
  18. DBWI: WI the Philippines hadn't been held in WW2?

    You'd need something outlandish like a surprise attack at Pearl Harbor that sank all the battle ships or something like that. Of course, how would the Japanese manage that with the shallow water in the harbor and all the Air Corps interceptors that were there? No, there's no way that the...
  19. Japan doesn't suffer the economic disaster: China today?

    Japan's '80's crash was a result of a non-existant foundation for the entire economy. Without getting in the details it was effectively a "borrow, make enough to pay off the loan, borrow again" cycle. The system worked remakably well while the manufacturing sector could maintain 20% or so annual...
  20. Plane hits US senate on 9/11

    By several orders of magnitude. The initial U.S. response was remarkably measured, given the provocation (the whole Iraq War isn't really a reaction to 9/11, that was just the political excuse). The Taliban were given the following demands on September 20: Deliver to the US all of the...
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